Fisheries Situation Report, April to June 2019

April 2019 to June 2019

Fisheries

The total volume of fisheries production during the second quarter of 2019 reached 1.1 million metric tons, which represents an annual growth of 0.4 percent from its level in the same quarter of 2018. Across the three subsectors, production from commercial fisheries and aquaculture showed decreases of 2.4 and 0.3 percent, respectively. Municipal fisheries production, on the other hand, exhibited an increase of 4.3 percent.

Of the seven major species, skipjack, seaweed and milkfish showed contractions in production compared with their levels in the same period of previous year by 5.6 percent, 2.9 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively. Nevertheless, the other four major species exhibited production growth, namely, yellowfin tuna (33.4%), roundscad (10.7%), tiger prawn (4.6%) and tilapia (0.6%).

Note:
Previous data reported as Indian oil sardines (Sardinella longiceps) is the Bali sardinella (Sardinella lemuru) as per BFAR Administrative Circular Oder No. 1 Series of 2019 and PSA approved memorandum of Correcting Nomenclature of Indian oil sardines to Bali sardinella dated 03 July 2019

Commercial

The estimated volume of production from commercial fisheries was 280.81 thousand metric tons, which indicates a decline of 2.4 percent compared with its previous year’s level of 287.68 thousand metric tons. The subsector comprised of 24.6 percent of the total fisheries output.

Municipal

Production from municipal fisheries for the period was estimated at 309.86 thousand metric tons, an increase of 4.3 percent from its level in the same period a year ago of 297.05 thousand metric tons. Of its total production, 87.2 percent came from marine municipal fisheries while the rest were from inland fisheries. Municipal fisheries contributed 27.2 percent to the total fisheries production.

Aquaculture

During the second quarter of 2019, total aquaculture production was estimated at 548.39 thousand metric tons. It was 0.3 percent lower than the output during the same period of previous year of 550.01 thousand metric tons. The subsector contributed the biggest share of 48.1 percent to the total fisheries production in the second quarter of 2019.