Dagupan City Pangasinan

Dagupan City is a 1st class city in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, Dagupan City has a population of 130,328 people in 25,921 households. Located on Lingayen Gulf on the island of Luzon, Dagupan is the chief port and commercial and financial center of the province and Northern Luzon; an active trade is conducted in sugarcane, corn, rice, copra, salt, and an alcoholic liquor produced from the nipa palm. The city is known as the bangus (milkfish) capital of the Philippines because of its abundance of fresh bangus.

The Bangus Industry of Dagupan City. Milkfish, popularly known as “bangus”, abounds in Pangasinan. The province is the country’s top producer of milkfish cultured in marine fish cage and marine fish pen, contributing 83.9 percent and 91.8 percent, respectively, in 2000. In 2003, about 51.2 percent (379) of the province’s fish pen/cage operators engaged in culturing milkfish were from Dagupan City.

Dagupan is among the top producers of milkfish in the province. From 2001-2003, Dagupan’s milkfish production totaled to 35,560.1 metric tons (MT), contributing 16.8 percent to the total provincial production. Of its total production in the past three years, 78.5 percent grew in fish pens/cages while the rest grew in brackishwater fishpond.