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Reference Number :
2021-CARAP-SR014
Fisheries production declines by 85.2 percent
The total fisheries production was estimated at 15.90 metric tons during January to June of 2021. It posted a decrement of 85.2 percent compared to 107.68 metric tons level in the same period a year ago. The highest production for the period from 2019 to 2021 was recorded in 2019, and showed an annual reduction over the three-year period. (Figure 1 and Table 1).
Figure 1. Volume of Fisheries Production and Annual Growth Rate,
Apayao Province, Cordillera Administrative Region,
January-June: 2019-2021
Figure 2. Percent share of all species to total production, Apayao Province,
Cordillera Administrative Region, January-June: 2021
All species present in the province recorded a reduction in production for the period of January to June 2021. Tilapia contributed the biggest share at 88.6 percent to the total production of fisheries far followed by carp at 4.3 percent. The least were freshwater crab (talangka) and white shrimp at 0.1 percent each. (Figure 2 and Table 2).
By subsector, output from inland municipal fisheries reported a reduction of 95.4 percent during the period of January to June 2021. The volume of production was registered at 3.19 metric tons, lower by 95.4 percent from the previous year’s production of 69.88 metric tons. The production represents 20.1 percent of the province’ total fisheries production. (Figure 3 and Table 1)
Figure 3. Volume of Inland Fisheries Production and Annual Growth Rate,
Apayao Province, Cordillera Administrative Region,
January-June: 2019-2021
Figure 4. Volume of Inland Fisheries Production by Classification, Apayao Province,
Cordillera Administrative Region, January-June: 2021
By classification of inland fisheries, fish contributed 92.5 percent representing 2.95 metric tons to total inland production, molluscs at 6.9 percent or 0.22 metric tons, and crustaceans at 0.6 percent or 0.02 metric tons. (Figure 4 and Table 3)
The total volume of harvests from aquaculture farms was estimated at 12.71 metric tons, which was 66.4 percent lower than the output during the same period in 2020 of 37.80 metric tons. The subsector comprised 79.9 percent of the total fisheries production. (Figure 5 and Table 1)
Figure 5. Volume of Aquaculture Production and Annual Growth Rate,
Apayao Province, Cordillera Administrative Region,
January-June: 2019-2021
Table 1. Volume of Fisheries Production by subsector, Apayao Province,
Cordillera Administrative Region, January-June: 2019-2021*
Table 2. Volume of Fisheries Production by species, Apayao Province,
Cordillera Administrative Region, January-June: 2019-2021*
Table 3. Volume of Inland Fisheries Production by Classification and by Species,
Apayao Province, Cordillera Administrative Region,
January-June: 2019-2021*
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