You have seen all the various fish that is traded on a daily basis in the city’s fish port. Obviously, people don’t bring the fish from their cellar to the port. The fish are caught using a variety of sea vessels. Some ships are processing the catch on-board, some are delivering fresh fish to the port or to the local factories. There are seven tuna processing plants in General Santos or its vicinity – it’s a tuna capital for a reason.

Below are photographs of the some vessels that were anchored in the port during my visit there.

The port is very busy in the morning hours:

Have you noticed how everybody is wearing white wellingtons? These are from the latest spring/summer collection and are mandatory when entering the fish port. Of course there is a fee to rent them. If you want to know where to rent them I will give you the same directions that we received at the port entrance: turn left, go all the way to the end and you will see a blue building on the left. That’s where you rent the boots.

Now, there are some gaps in this explanation, maybe to make things more interesting. The blue building is not really blue (ok part of it is blue, but you don’t see that part from the street) and it’s not exactly at the end of the street on the left hand side. That changes things a little bit, doesn’t it? So here are more accurate directions: once you pass the port entrance you do turn left and go all the way till you see the sign informing you about the location of office buildings of the port. This is where you want to turn right. Go a few meters and you will see quite a few parked cars on the left hand side. However there is a “No entry” sign. Go few meters more, this is where you actually can turn left. Park the car, go to the building close to the car park and bingo! you can get your pair of wellingtons from the latest spring/summer collection (don’t forget about the fee :)). And now you can go and have a look around the place. Maybe even buy some fish.

I guess I should have written all this in the previous post…