Volume of Fisheries Production

The total fisheries production in Oriental Mindoro was estimated at 1,038.63 metric tons during the first quarter of 2025. It declined by 33.8 percent from its previous year’s output of 1,569.80 metric tons.

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

Volume of Production by Subsector

For the first quarter of 2025, the commercial fisheries output displayed a decrease of 11.8 percent at 353.64 metric tons compared to the same quarter of last year’s volume of production of 401.10 metric tons. Of the province’s total fisheries production, the subsector constituted the biggest share of 34.1 percent.

Marine municipal fisheries’ volume of production was recorded at 329.54 metric tons during the quarter. Comparing to the 2024 production of 719.90 metric tons, this year’s output displayed a 54.2 percent decrease in production. Marine municipal subsector had a share of 31.7 percent of the total fisheries production of the province.

The subsector of inland municipal fisheries registered 202.05 metric tons volume of production, contributing 19.5 percent share to the total fisheries of the province. This quarter’s production decreased by 31.9 percent from the same quarter of last year’s production of 296.60 metric tons.

Total harvests from aquaculture farms were recorded at 153.39 metric tons. This volume displayed a 0.8 percent increase compared to the first quarter 2024 harvests of 152.20 metric tons. This subsector shared 14.8 percent of the total fisheries production of the province.

Value of Fisheries Production

Oriental Mindoro’s total value of fisheries production reached PhP 185.08 million in the first quarter of 2025, which is a decrease of 18.9 percent compared to the PhP 228.32 million value of production in the first quarter of the previous year.

All three subsectors of marine municipal, inland municipal fisheries, and aquaculture posted a decrease in the value of production during the reference period compared with the value in the same quarter of 2024. Marine municipal fisheries reported a total value of Php 55.98 million, which is a 43.6 percent decrease from last year’s value of Php 99.21 million. Likewise, inland municipal fisheries value of production went down by 25.5 percent (Php 19.96 million from Php 26.79 million), and aquaculture decreased by 11.8 percent (Php 37.66 million from Php 42.69 million).

On the other hand, commercial fisheries increased in value of production for the first quarter of this year. Commercial’s value of production went up by 19.9 percent (Php 71.48 million from Php 59.64 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.