Mayor Belen Fernandez has expressed hope for Dagupan’s famous milkfish (bangus) products to acquire its long-awaited registration thru Geographical Indication to the Intellectual Property Office, an attached agency of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), to protect the identity and brand of the city’s bangus manufacturing industry.
This developed during a Collective Mark Mapping/Meeting of bangus industry stakeholders last October 24 at Lenox Hotel spearheaded by DTI Provincial Director Natalia Dalaten to consult and discuss concrete platforms for a more robust agri-fishery economy in Dagupan.
The local chief executive assured her support to the undertaking as she identified other projects to boost the city’s fishery economy such as the comeback of Dagupan’s Product Center which is a one-stop-shop for local products of micro-small and medium entrepreneurs, as well as the production of oyster to promote it as another famous Dagupan bestseller.
