Volume of Fisheries Production

The total fisheries production in Oriental Mindoro was estimated at 6,124.17 metric tons. It declined by 32.1 percent from its previous year’s output of 9,018.67 metric tons.

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

Volume of Production by Subsector

The commercial fisheries output displayed a decrease of 34.4 percent at 2,216.42 metric tons compared to last year’s volume of production of 3,380.81 metric tons. Of the province’s total fisheries production, the subsector constituted the biggest share of 36.2 percent.

Marine municipal fisheries’ volume of production was recorded at 1,994.55 metric tons in 2024. Compared to the 2023 production of 3,523.01 metric tons, this year’s output displayed a 43.4 percent decrease in production. Marine municipal subsector had the share of 32.6 percent to the total fisheries production of the province.

The subsector of inland municipal fisheries registered 709.90 metric tons volume of production, contributing 11.6 percent share to the total fisheries of the province. This year’s production decreased by 33.9 percent from last year’s production of 1,073.23 metric tons.

Total harvests from aquaculture farms were recorded at 1,203.30 metric tons. This volume displayed a 15.5 percent increase compared to the 2023 harvests of 1,041.62 metric tons. This subsector shared 19.7 percent of the total fisheries production of the province.

Value of Fisheries Production

Oriental Mindoro’s total value of fisheries production reached PhP 981.23 million in 2024, compared to the PhP 1,313.51 million value of production of the previous year. This year’s value decreased by 25.3 percent.

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 2023. Commercial fisheries reported a total value of Php 281.00 million which is a 38.9 percent decrease from last year’s value of Php 459.57 million. Likewise, marine municipal fisheries value of production went down by 44.7 percent (Php 302.95 million from Php 547.75 million), and inland municipal decreased by 37.4 percent (Php 68.81 million from Php 109.93 million).

On the other hand, aquaculture increased in value of production for 2024. Aquaculture’s value of production went up by 67.4 percent (Php 328.46 million from Php 196.27 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.