Volume of Fisheries Production

During the second quarter of 2024, the total fisheries production in Palawan was estimated at 63,625.23 metric tons, higher by 6.0 percent from its previous year’s output of 60,023.40 metric tons.

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

Volume of Production by Subsector

For the second quarter of 2024, the commercial fisheries output displayed an increase of 18.8 percent at 8,413.93 metric tons compared to the same quarter of last year’s volume of production of 7,084.88 metric tons. This subsector shared 13.22 percent in the total fisheries production of the province.

Marine municipal fisheries’ volume of production was recorded at 21,303.12 metric tons during the quarter. Comparing to 2023 production of 22,835.50 metric tons, this year’s output displayed a 6.7 percent decline in production. This subsector contributed 33.48 percent in the total fisheries production of Palawan.

The subsector of inland municipal fisheries registered 22.97 metric tons volume of production, contributing 0.04 percent share to the total fisheries of the province. This quarter’s production decreased by 7.7 percent from same quarter of last year’s production of 24.88 metric tons.

Total harvests from aquaculture farms were recorded at 33,885.20 metric tons. This volume displayed a 12.66 percent increase compared to the second quarter 2023 harvests of 30,078.13 metric tons. Aquaculture subsector had biggest share of 53.26 percent to the total fisheries production of the province.

Value of Fisheries Production

Palawan’s total value of fisheries production reached PhP 3.31 billion in the second quarter of 2024, which is lower by 10.60 percent compared to the PhP 3.70 billion value of production in the second quarter of the previous year.

Only the commercial fisheries subsector posted an increase 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 493.10 million registering a 4.40 percent increase from last year’s value of PhP 472.30 million.

On the other hand, the aquaculture value of production went down by 35.18 percent (PhP 232.82 million from PhP 359.19 million). Inland municipal’s value of production also decreased by 11.95 percent (PhP 2.73 million from PhP 3.10 million) and marine municipal fisheries by 10.00 percent (PhP 2.58 billion from PhP 2.86 billion).

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

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