Volume of Fisheries Production

The total fisheries production in Oriental Mindoro was estimated at 1,328.58 metric tons during the fourth quarter of 2024. It declined by 52.2 percent from its previous year’s output of 2,778.00 metric tons.

Subsectors of commercial, marine municipal, and inland municipal displayed decrease in production while only aquaculture increase in production.

Volume of Production by Subsector

For the fourth quarter of 2024, the commercial fisheries output displayed a decrease of 76.2 percent at 266.59 metric tons compared to the same quarter of last year’s volume of production of 1,120.00 metric tons. This subsector shared 20.1 percent in the total fisheries production of the province.

Marine municipal fisheries’ volume of production was recorded at 350.80 metric tons during the quarter. Comparing to 2023 production of 1,021.40 metric tons, this year’s output displayed a 65.7 percent decrease in production. Marine municipal subsector had the share of 26.4 percent to the total fisheries production of the province.

The subsector of inland municipal fisheries registered 152.36 metric tons volume of production, contributing 11.5 percent share to the total fisheries of the province. This quarter’s production decreased by 33.4 percent from same quarter of last year’s production of 228.60 metric tons.

Total harvests from aquaculture farms were recorded at 558.82 metric tons. This volume displayed a 37.0 percent increase compared to the fourth quarter 2023 harvests of 408.01 metric tons. Of the province’s total fisheries production, the subsector constituted the biggest share of 42.1 percent.

Value of Fisheries Production

Oriental Mindoro’s total value of fisheries production reached PhP 277.16 million in the fourth quarter of 2024, which is a decrease of 36.7 percent compared to the PhP 437.59 million value of production in the fourth quarter of the previous year.

All three subsectors of commercial, marine municipal, and inland municipal fisheries, posted a decrease in the value of production during the reference period compared with the value in the same quarter of 2023. Commercial fisheries reported a total value of Php 43.32 million which is a 74.6 percent decrease from last year’s value of Php 170.33 million. Likewise, marine municipal fisheries value of production went down by 61.7 percent (Php 59.89 million from Php 156.35 million), and inland municipal decreased by 37.5 percent (Php 15.51 million from Php 24.82 million).

On the other hand, aquaculture increased in value of production for the fourth quarter of this year. Aquaculture’s value of production went up by 84.1 percent (Php 158.45 million from Php 86.08 million).

(SGD) CHARLYN ROMERO-CANTOS, PhD
(Chief Administrative Officer)
Officer-in-Charge
Oriental Mindoro Provincial Statistical Office

HTD/MCLQ

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.