Now on its 4th year, the Ugyonan Seafood Festival is slated on December 7 and 8, 2019. Each year, local and international tourists coming over to the festival significantly increased.

Known for our “blue crab”, the town’s produced contributes a significant portion of supply to producers and exporters of pasteurized canned crabmeat in the country. It is one of the most-high value export seafood commodity of the country. More importantly, the value in the supply chain boosts local economy benefiting different sectors in terms of employment and livelihood opportunity.

With more or less 29 kilometers of coastal line and 2,000 hectares of fishpond, our town is devising and implementing pro-active interventions through programs and advocacy campaign in order to preserve and protect the resource thus ensuring the sustainability of the blue crab industry and the fishery sector as a whole. To further expose our local produced to both export and local market, we are sourcing out ideas on research and product development through public-private partnership and other venues such as the yearly seafood festival.

This year, the 1st Culinary Competition will be launched during the 4th Ugyonan Seafood Festival using our main produced, steamed blue swimming crab and fresh chilled pasteurized crabmeat and the usual “eat all you can seafood” will be held once again as part of the festival highlight. We have invited food sector, culinary practitioners and academe to the “4th Ugyonan Seafood Festival culinary competition slated on December 8, 2019.