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Chapter 4: Findings, Conclusions & Recommendations

The study aimed to determine the ideal spatial configuration of a fishing port complex to enhance market value. Through content analysis of related texts and interviews with administrative staff from two port complexes, the study identified three major stages of the fishing process: landing, processing, and marketing. Key findings included that each stage involves different operations, facilities, and roles. The spatial requirements and considerations for the port complexes were also determined via interviews and observations. Finally, the research translated the ethnographic data into spatial concepts and models through case studies using space syntax, generating a space syntax model for a proposed fishing port complex.

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Chapter 4: Findings, Conclusions & Recommendations

The study aimed to determine the ideal spatial configuration of a fishing port complex to enhance market value. Through content analysis of related texts and interviews with administrative staff from two port complexes, the study identified three major stages of the fishing process: landing, processing, and marketing. Key findings included that each stage involves different operations, facilities, and roles. The spatial requirements and considerations for the port complexes were also determined via interviews and observations. Finally, the research translated the ethnographic data into spatial concepts and models through case studies using space syntax, generating a space syntax model for a proposed fishing port complex.

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CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS &

RECOMMENDATIONS
4.1 Summary of Findings
The study was conducted in order to determine the spatial configuration that

should enhance the fisheries market value of a fishing port complex. The descriptive

method was used on the research to characteristics of the phenomenon that is being

studied. The data gathering procedure involves content analysis to related texts. On-

site observation was done within the fishing port of the Sual Fish Port Complex and

of the Navotas Fish Port Complex. The semi-structured interviews were participated

by 4 administrative staff from SFPC and 3 administrative staff from NFPC.  These

data gathering procedures were conducted around the first quarter of 2020.

Research Question (1) What is the ideal spatial configuration for a fishing port

complex to  enhance fishery market value?

The research identifies the ideal spatial configuration for the fishing port

complex through content analysis. This enables the researcher to contextualize

relevant data, its operational definition, and the population at which it is drawn.

Through systematic understanding of related texts, the method also defined the

boundaries of the analysis and how the data should be analyzed. These data helped

the researchers identify important variables of an ideal spatial configuration for the

fishing port complex.

As such, the study determines that there are three (3) major stages in the

fishing process of a fish port complex - the landing, processing and marketing. Each

of these stages has its own procedural operations, facilities, and people involved
within the process. Figure 3.5 shows the workflow or process that goes through in

between the fish sources to consumers. Figure 3.6 shows the major and ancillary

facilities that are necessary in each of the three (3) stages. While figure 3.8 shows

the roles of administrative staff through the organizational chart of Sual and Navotas

Fish Port Complex. 

Research Question (2) What are the significant spatial requirements and

considerations of the fishing process in order to establish patterns and relationships

of the needed facilities?

The researchers determined the important spatial requirements and considerations

through interviews and observation. Using the data from the content analysis, a

checklist allows the researcher to conduct systematic ways of collecting data through

interview questions and criterias for observation. The interviews were participated by

the administrative staff of SFPC-PFDA and NFPC-PFDA. Figure 3..3 shows the

saturation of interview data at each category, time and respondents. It revealed the

nature of the fishing port complex as a post-harvest development. The respondents

elaborated the fishing process, operations and facilities in much greater detail. The

interview also allows the respondents to explain issues and challenges in the fish

port complex. Other respondents also shared the future development plans of the

fish port complexes.

Moreover, the methodology of observations completes the ethnographic data on the

fishing port complex and its fishing process. It provides the experiential attribute of

the development related to adjacency, sensory and the actual function of the

facilities. Observations confirmed the data collected at the earlier methodologies. It


also added a few more details to the procedural operations, facilities, and people

involved within the three major stages of the fishing process.

Research Question (3) How to translate ethnographic data into spatial concepts

and models  needed for the design development of the proposed Rosario fishing port

complex?

The research has been able to translate ethnographic data of the fishing

process on the fishing port complex through case studies that uses space syntax as

a tool for architectural design. This provides methodologies for researchers to

interpret data from criteria, flowcharts and relational matrices into a spatial model.

The content analysis provides  the scope on what data are to be collected and how it

is supposed to be analyzed. The interview data were used to detail the programming

for the development. While, observation data provides sensory parameters for the

facilities of the fishing port complex. Finally, a space syntax model for a fishing port

complex has been generated.

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