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Oriental Mindoro Fisheries Statistics - Third Quarter 2023

Volume of Fisheries Production

During the third quarter of 2023, the total fisheries production in Oriental Mindoro was estimated at 3,197.23 metric tons. It grew by 102.5 percent from its previous year's output of 1,579.12 metric tons.

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

Volume of Production by Subsector

For the third quarter of 2023, the commercial fisheries output displayed an increase of 148.2 percent at 1221.73 metric tons compared to the same quarter of last year’s volume of production of 492.24 metric tons. This subsector shared 38.2 percent in the total fisheries production of the province.

Marine municipal fisheries’ volume of production was recorded at 1,386.76 metric tons during the quarter. Comparing to 2022 production of 733.55 metric tons, this year’s output displayed a 89.0 percent increase in production. Of the province’s total fisheries production, the subsector constituted the biggest share of 43.4 percent.

The subsector of inland municipal fisheries registered 393.16 metric tons volume of production, contributing 12.3 percent share to the total fisheries of the province. This quarter’s production posted an increase of 152.5 percent from same quarter of last year’s production of 155.70 metric tons.

Total harvests from aquaculture farms were recorded at 195.59 metric tons. This volume displayed a -1.0 percent decrease compared to the third quarter 2022 harvests of 197.62 metric tons. Aquaculture subsector had the share of 6.1 percent to the total fisheries production of the province.

Value of Fisheries Production

Oriental Mindoro’s total value of fisheries production reached PhP 465,114,60 million in the third quarter of 2023, compared to the PhP 216,396.14 thousand value of production in the third quarter of the previous year. This year's increased by 114.94 percent.

All the fisheries' subsectors 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 164,049.82 thousand which is a 172.4 percent increase from last year’s value of PhP 60,230.30 thousand. Likewise, marine municipal fisheries value of production went up by 81.5 percent (PhP 209,927.58 thousand from PhP 115,631.95 thousand); inland municipal fisheries by 427.1 percent (Php 46,858.56 thousand from Php 8,889.65 thousand); and aquaculture by 39.9 percent (Php 44,278.64 thousand from Php 31,644.24 thousand).

(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.