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Oriental Mindoro Fisheries Statistics Fourth Quarter 2024

Volume of Fisheries Production

During the fourth quarter of 2023, the total fisheries production in Oriental Mindoro was estimated at 2,970.59 metric tons. It grew by 65.7 percent from its previous year’s output of 1,793.03 metric tons.

Subsectors of commercial and marine municipal displayed increase in production while inland municipal fisheries and aquaculture decreased in production.

Volume of Production by Subsector

For the fourth quarter of 2023, the commercial fisheries output displayed an increase of 1,188.8 percent at 1,341.5 metric tons compared to the same quarter of last year’s volume of production of 104.09 metric tons. Of the province’s total fisheries production, the subsector constituted the biggest share of 45.2 percent.

Marine municipal fisheries’ volume of production was recorded at 992.48 metric tons during the quarter. Comparing to 2022 production of 577.69 metric tons, this year’s output displayed a 71.8 percent increase in production. This subsector shared 33.4 percent in the total fisheries production of the province.

The subsector of inland municipal fisheries registered 228.6 metric tons volume of production, contributing 7.7 percent share to the total fisheries of the province. This quarter’s production declined by 60.0 percent from same quarter of last year’s production of 572.14 metric tons.

Total harvests from aquaculture farms were recorded at 408.01 metric tons. This volume displayed a -24.3 percent decrease compared to the third quarter 2022 harvests of 539.11 metric tons. Aquaculture subsector had the share of 13.7 percent to the total fisheries production of the province.

Value of Fisheries Production

Oriental Mindoro’s total value of fisheries production reached PhP 455.25 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, which is an increase of 55.4 percent compared to the PhP 293.03 million value of production in the fourth quarter of the previous year.

Both subsectors of commercial and marine municipal fisheries posted an increase in the value of production during the reference period compared with the value in the same quarter of 2022. Commercial fisheries reported a total value of PhP 202.75 million which is a 1,704.9 percent increase from last year’s value of PhP 11.23 million. Likewise, marine municipal fisheries value of production went up by 50.7 percent (PhP 141.61 million from PhP 93.97 million).

On the other hand, inland municipal and aquaculture subsectors decreased in value of production for the fourth quarter of this year. Inland municipal’s value of production declined by 40.0 percent (PhP 24.82 million from PhP 41.37 million); and aquaculture also declined by 41.2 percent (PhP 86.08 million from PhP 146.46 million).

(SGD) DONNA MARIE D. MOBE
(Supervising Statistical Specialist)
Officer-in-Charge
Oriental Mindoro Provincial Statistical Office

TECHNICAL NOTES

The Fisheries Situation Report presents the data on volume and value of production of fisheries derived from the quarterly surveys conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority. The surveys are:
                Quarterly Commercial Fisheries Survey (QCFS),
                Quartely Municipal Fisheries Survey (QMFS),
                Quarterly Inland Fisheries Survey (QIFS), and
                Quarterly Aquaculture Survey (QaqS).

These surveys are conducted quarterly with reference period: January to March for the First Quarter, April to June for the Second Quarter, July to September for the Third Quarter, and October to December for the Fourth Quarter. Data are collected from the sample fish landing centers for QCFS and QMFS, from sample households for QIFS, and from sample aquafarms for QAqS.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Volume of Production is the total weight in metric tons of the species from commercial, municipal, aquaculture, and inland fisheries.

Value of Production is the total price in thousand pesos of the species from commercial, municipal, aquaculture, and inland fisheries.

Commercial Fishing covers fishing operations in marine waters beyond 15 kilometers from the shoreline by fishing boats with more than three (3) gross tons.

Marine Municipal Fishing covers fishing operations in marine waters within 15 kilometers from the shoreline by fishing boats with three (3) gross tons or less.

Inland Municipal Fishing covers fishing operations performed in inland bodies of water using fishing vessels of three (3) gross tons or less, or fishing not requiring the use of fishing vessels.

Aquaculture is fishery operation involving all forms of raising and culturing of fish and other fishery species in marine, brackish and freshwater environment. Examples are fishponds, fish pens, fish cages, mussel, oyster, seaweed farms and hatcheries.

Fish Landing Center is the place where the fish catch and other aquatic products are loaded and traded.

Aquafarm is the farming facility used in the culture or propagation of aquatic species including fish, mollusk, crustaceans and aquatic plants for purposes of rearing and culturing to enhance production.