In a country endowed with 17,460 kilometers of coastline, aquaculture may be fertile ground for businesses both big and small. Still, be it marine-based or land-based, farm activities present opportunities for both producers and buyers. Borromeo said the aquaculture sub-sector was primed to be the biggest source of food fish as output from wild capture fishing has reached a plateau. According to Pafpi, the value of total fisheries production was pegged at P238 billion or $5.8 billion in 2015, with over half of that coming from aquaculture instead of capture or wild fishing.

Domingo, R. (2017, January 27). PH fertile ground for agribusiness. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. B3-5.