Fishing households grow 18% but workforce ageing

FISHING HOUSEHOLDS increased 18.1% over the past decade, though the overall fishing workforce is ageing, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said. In total 897,575 households had members involved in fishing in 2022, according to preliminary PSA data, against 760,000 fishing households in 2012. The number of fisherfolk over 50 years old rose 47.3% to over […]