This Special Release presents data on volume and value of production of fisheries in the province of Cavite for the second quarter of 2024. Figures are based on the preliminary results of the tabulated data from the Quarterly Fisheries Survey, Fisheries Statistics Division (FSD).

Volume of Fisheries Production

CALABARZON’s production of fisheries shows an increased of 9.19 percent from the second quarter of 2023 to the same period of 2024, mainly driven by strong growth in the provinces of Batangas and Quezon with 33.57 percent and 37.58 percent, respectively.

During the same reference period of 2024, the total fisheries production in Cavite was recorded at 4,111.85 metric tons. It went down by 9.37 percent from its previous year’s output of 4,536.83 metric tons. (Refer to Table 1 for details.)

Batangas and Quezon had the highest percentage of contribution in the region’s total output. Despite the decreased in production, the province of Cavite had 8.66 percent shared in the second quarter of 2024. (Refer to Figure 1 for details.)

Volume of Fisheries Production by Sector

In the entire Region 4A, commercial and municipal fisheries output displayed an increase both in the second quarter of 2023 and 2024. However, most of the sectors displayed output in the province of Cavite has declined. Inland and aquaculture fisheries experienced the largest decrease in the production with 55.28 percent and 73.44 percent, respectively. Only municipal fisheries sector in the province had the positive growth, which rose by 17.94 percent. (Refer to Table 2 for details.)

Moreover, during the second quarter of 2024, the sector in municipal fisheries had the highest shares with 51.83 percent in the province. Despite of the production decline, commercial fisheries still contributed 42.93 percent, aquaculture supplied 5.24 percent and 0.15 percent shared from the sector of inland fisheries. (Refer to Figure 2 for details.)

Value of Production by Sector in Cavite

The total value of fisheries production in the province of Cavite decreased by 10.65 percent, falling from 678.44 million pesos in the second quarter of 2023 to 606.18 million pesos in the same reference period of 2024. This was opposite to the reported value in the region of Calabarzon, which increases by 14.29 percent.

Municipal fisheries sector in the province reached 343.42 million pesos in the second quarter of 2024, which is remained stable with a slight increase of 0.60 percent. On the contrary, commercial fisheries value of production declined by 17.19 percent (254.13 million pesos from 306.87 million pesos), and aquaculture sector by 71.42 percent, (8.63 million pesos from 30.19 million pesos). Moreover, inland fisheries had the lowest value among the four sectors, from 813.97 thousand pesos in the second quarter of 2023 to 539.98 thousand pesos during the reference period of 2024. (Refer Table 3 for details.)

Volume of Aquaculture Production

The aquaculture production in both CALABARZON and in Cavite experienced significant declines in the second quarter of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. Total harvests from Cavite’s aquaculture farm were recorded at 215.57 metric tons. This volume displayed a 73.44 percent decrease compared to the second quarter of 2023 harvests of 811.57 metric tons. Most of the type of ecosystem declined except the production from marine cage with 0.88 metric tons from 0.05 metric tons, and oyster farm which increased by 7.46 percent, produced 32.99 metric tons in the second quarter of 2024 from 30.70 metric tons output of the same quarter in 2023. (Refer to Table 4 for details.)

Value of Aquaculture Production

The total value of aquaculture production in CALABARZON reported 1.41 billion pesos in the second quarter of 2024 which is a decline of 25.51 percent compared to 1.90 billion pesos value of production in the same quarter of the previous year. Similarly, Cavite’s value of aquaculture production was down by 71.42 percent, from 30.19 million pesos of 2023 to 8.63 million pesos in the same reference period of 2024.

Marine cage sector in the province of Cavite displayed 601.36 percent of increase in production value, from 50.00 thousand pesos in the second quarter of 2023 to 350.68 thousand pesos in the same quarter of 2024. Freshwater fishpond production value reported 48.53 percent increase, from 72.47 thousand pesos in the second quarter of 2023 to 107.64 thousand pesos in the same coverage of 2024.  Meanwhile, brackishwater fishpond dropped 78.61 percent, oyster and mussel farm also experienced of lower value of production from the harvest on the previous year. Additionally, brackishwater pen fell by 100 percent, indicated by no recorded production on the same quarter of 2024. (Refer to Table 5 for details.)

TECHNICAL NOTES

The Fisheries Situation Report is a quarterly publication by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) that provides data on the volume and value of fisheries production. This report is based on four key surveys conducted by the PSA:  
Quarterly Commercial Fisheries Survey (QCFS)
Quarterly Municipal Fisheries Survey (QMFS)
Quarterly Inland Fisheries Survey (QIFS), and
Quarterly Aquaculture Survey (QAqS)

These surveys are conducted quarterly, with reference periods as follows: 
•    First Quarter: January to March 
•    Second Quarter: April to June
•    Third Quarter: July to September 
•    Fourth Quarter: October to December

Data collection method varies by survey:
•    QCFS and QMFS: Data are gathered from sample fish landing centers on a monthly basis.
•    QIFS: Data are collected from sample households engaged in inland fishing quarterly.
•    QAqS: Data are obtained from sample aquafarms involved in aquaculture activities quarterly.

Definition of Terms

Fisheries – refer to all activities relating to the act or business of fishing, culturing, preserving, processing, marketing, deceloping, conserving, and managing aquatic resources and the fishery areas including the privilege to fish or take aquatic resources thereof (Republic Act No. 8550 otherwise known as “The Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998”).
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.
Quarterly Commercial Fisheries Survey – is a survey on volume and price of fish unloaded at sample commercial fish landing centers by fishing boats with gross tonnage of more than three (3) tons. Data on commercial fisheries are collected in fish landing centers where fishermen unload and trade their catch. 
Quarterly Municipal Fisheries Survey – is a survey on volume and price of fish unloaded in municipal traditional fish landing centers by fishing boat with gross tonnage three (3) tons and less. 
Quarterly Inland Fisheries Survey – is a survey on volume and price of fish, by species caught by the households engaged in inland fishing.
Quarterly Aquaculture Survey – is a quarterly survey that generates aquaculture production and area estimates. It asks for the actual level of production, area harvested and price for each species during the reference quarter of the current and previous year from the sample operators in the top producing municipalities.
Types of Ecosystems refers to the type of water environment where the various species were cultured.
Brackishwater Fishpond – a land-based type of aquafarm that utilizes a brackish water, mixture of seawater and freshwater for fish farming or aquaculture. 
Brackishwater Pen – is an artificial enclosure constructed within a brackishwater for culturing fish and fishery/aquatic resources made up of bamboo poles closely arranged in an enclosure with wooden materials, screen, or nylon netting to prevent escape of fish.
Freshwater Fishpond – a land-based type of aquafarm; a pure fresh water where fish and other aquatic products are cultured, raised of cultivated under controlled conditions.
Marine Cage – a stationary or floating fish enclosure made of synthetic net wire/bamboo screen or other materials with or without cover with all sides either tied to poles staked to the water bottom or with anchored floats for aquaculture purposes.
Oyster – an aquafarm involved in the cultivation of oyster in shallow brackish or marine areas by any method for production purposes.
Mussel – an aquafarm involved in the cultivation of mussel in shallow brackish or marine areas by any method for production purposes.

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