Value Chain Analysis of the Horse Mussel Modiolus metcalfei (Hanley, 1843) Fishery in Iloilo, Philippines

Fish availability and market channel in Rajbari, Bangladesh

“…Approximately 70% of total fishes in the landing center were handled by supplier who had to pay a significant amount of commission to the wholesalers for selling the products ( Rabbani et al., 2017 ). Composition of the marketing channels found from the present study is similar to several previous studies (Gowsalya et al., 2019; Grema et al., 2020 ; Roy et al., 2020a ; Mebrate and Worku, 2020 ; Uba et al., 2020 ). It is needless to say that fishes from the nearby water resources have to pass shorter distribution channel, their price in wholesale and retailer are comparatively lower; however, their consumer demand is high in the study area.…”

“…In the chains different actors perform different value additional activities and enablers support, manage and monitor the functions. In the present study, value chain was mapped based on present findings following Porter (1985) and Uba et al. (2020) .…”