Aquaculture can offer a "life saving" source of affordable protein for the world's poor and hungry in the next millennium. This could be truer in the Philippines where the poor prefers fish because it is cheap at P50 to P80 a kilo compared to P85 per kilo of chicken, P90 to P105 per kilo of pork and P120 per kilo of beef. In a recently held seminar of Responsible Aquaculture Development in Southeast Asia, scientists say that aquaculture is an important provided of much-needed, affordable and high quality protein for many poor countries, including China and Asian countries amid the declining marine fishery catch.

Labiste, D. (1999, October 25-31). Aquaculture can help feed the world's poor and hungry in the next millennium. The Visayas Examiner, pp. 4, 8.