PCAARRD Executive Director Patricio S. Faylon and officials from the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food, Inc. (PCAFI) and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) toured the facilities of Trapia Malaysia Sdn Bhd in Malaysia recently.
Trapia Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a joint venture corporation duly organized under the Malaysian law. GenoMar AS of Norway owns 85% of the shares through its 100%-owned daughter company, GenoMar Production AS.
The Malaysian partner company, Dalefin Holding Sdn Bhd./SADC, holds the remaining 15% of the joint venture company.
Trapia means traceable tilapia, whose origin and identity can be verified through DNA technology. It is produced using GenoMar Supreme Tilapia (GST) fingerlings to grow market size tilapia in GenoMar’s own grow-out facilities. Each fingerling used is “pre-tagged”, traceable, and verifiable throughout the integrated value chain.
Trapia has the exclusive right to use GST in Malaysia. GST represents internationally the most genetically advanced tilapia broodstock. Some of the technicians/breeders working at Trapia are from the Philippines, specifically from Pampanga.
Headquartered in Ipoh in the State of Perak, the company was granted the right to operate its eco-friendly farm in the pristine rainforest-fed fresh water lakes of Tasik Temenggor of the Perak River system.