Roxas City, the seafood capital of the Philippines: Myth or fact?

Abstract

The purpose of this study attempts to prove the branding of Roxas City, which is part of the Province of Capiz, like the Seafood Capital of the Philippines. The researchers utilized secondary data from the Fisheries Statistics of the Philippines from 2007 to 2017 through time-series analysis. The study was on the determination of the performance of the Province of Capiz in the type of production on Commercial, Marine Municipal, Inland Municipal, and Aquaculture its volume and value at the same time knowing the performance on various species and determine who are the top fisheries producing Provinces by sector from 2007 to 2017. Results of the study revealed that the volume and value in the fishing industry in commercial, marine municipal, inland municipal in the Province of Capiz was decreasing. The researchers observed that the Capiz is not part of the top producing province in the Philippines. However, the volume and value in the aquaculture industry were increasingly focused on different species such as milkfish, mud crab, mussel, oyster, tiger prawn, white shrimp, and endeavor prawn. If the basis of the City of Roxas to become the Seafood Capital of the Philippines is in volume and value across industry types, the claim is a myth.