Volume of Fisheries Production

During the third quarter of 2024, the total fisheries production in Palawan was estimated at 88,542.24 metric tons. It grew by 6.3 percent from its previous year’s output of 83,328.60 metric tons.

Commercial fisheries and aquaculture subsectors displayed increase in production while marine municipal fisheries and inland municipal fisheries displayed decline in production.

Volume of Production by Subsector

For the third quarter of 2024, the commercial fisheries output displayed an increase of 55.1 percent at 3,363.75 metric tons compared to the same quarter of last year’s volume of production of 2,168.84 metric tons. This subsector shared 3.80 percent in the total fisheries production of the province.

Marine municipal fisheries’ volume of production was recorded at 30,931.99 metric tons during the quarter. Comparing to 2023 production of 33,145.36 metric tons, this year’s output displayed a 6.7 percent decline in production. Of the province’s total fisheries production, the subsector constituted the share of 34.93 percent.

The subsector of inland municipal fisheries registered 8.70 metric tons volume of production, contributing 0.01 percent share to the total fisheries of the province. This quarter’s production declined by 33.6 percent from same quarter of last year’s production of 13.11 metric tons.

Total harvests from aquaculture farms were recorded at 54,237.81 metric tons. This volume displayed a 13.0 percent increase compared to the third quarter 2023 harvests of 48,001.28 metric tons. Aquaculture subsector had the biggest share of 61.26 percent to the total fisheries production of the province.

Value of Fisheries Production

Palawan’s total value of fisheries production reached PhP 4.47 billion in the third quarter of 2024, which is a decline of 9.47 percent compared to the PhP 4.93 billion value of production in the third quarter of the previous year.

Commercial fisheries reported a total value of PhP 358.49 million posting an increase of 42.7 percent from last year’s value of PhP 251.25 million. The value of production for aquaculture also went up by 41.8 percent (PhP 796.81 million from PhP 561.86 million).

On the contrary, inland municipal’s value of production declined by 32.5 percent (PhP 811.96 thousand from PhP 1.20 million) and marine municipal fisheries by 19.6 percent (PhP 3.31 billion from PhP 4.12 billion).

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

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