CEBU CITY – Local fish vendors will return to their old seafood trading hub but in a newly refurbished building in the coastal village of Suba, home to fresh seafood, said City market administrator Robert Barquilla.
Barquilla said fish
traders will return to the old Pasil Fish Port now named Cebu City Fish Market,
after years of holding business at the “Bagsakan” center at the South Road
Properties in the village of Mambaling.
He said Mayor
Michael Rama instructed his office to fast-track the transfer of the vendors so
they would no longer have the inconvenience of doing business in a place not
suitable for fish trading.
Although the
new fish market still needs some improvements before it can resume operations
again, Barquilla said fish vendors are determined to go back to the village of Suba,
their usual fish trading place in Metro Cebu.
Buyers of fresh
fish and other seafood products from around Metro Cebu would usually visit the
Pasil Fish Market across Cebu’s San Nicolas de Tolentino Parish, before its
main trading building was destroyed by an earthquake in 2013. Since 2013, fish
trading has transferred to the coastal areas of Pasil Fish Port and the
Bagsakan Center at the SRP when the fish port was reconstructed in 2018.
“But what I see
in Pasil is that we still have to finish the road. That’s the road on Belgium
St. where concreting work is ongoing. When that road is completed, we will
transfer the fish trading in the area,” Barquilla said, adding around 20 big
stall holders will be transferred to the new fish market.
The new fish
market, he assured, would be clean, orderly, and conducive to fish trading
business. (John Rey Saavedra)
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