The fish hatchery operated by the city government has allowed the local agriculture office to distribute more fish fingerlings as it avoided the previous high morbidity rate when the city used to rely on transported fingerlings from elsewhere. Aime Evora, acting head of City Agriculturist Office’s (CAgrO) Fishery Resource Management Service Division, reported that some 300 fisherfolk from upland and coastal barangays across the city have benefited from the city government’s hatchery, which dispersed a total of 190,000 fingerlings during the first half of this year. She said the city government hatchery produced and released 165,000 “tilapia” and 25,000 “hito” fingerlings between January and June.

Cayon, M. T. (2025, July 29). Davao City fish hatchery hikes survival rate of fingerlings. BusinessMirror, p. A7.