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Aquaculture has made up an increasingly large proportion of fisheries products produced in the Philippines, and there has been considerable research into improving aquacultural output. Philippine output in total makes up 1% of global aquaculture production, and the country is the fourth-largest producer of seaweed.
The 1.75 million MT of farmed seaweed produced made the country the world's third-largest producer. Aside from seaweed, marine production made up 5% of produce, with brackish water and freshwater making up 12.5% each. There were 790,900 tonnes of fish produced, making up 25.4% of all fish production.
The Philippines is an archipelagic state whose over 7,000 islands [1] with their large coastal population [2]: 2 are surrounded by waters including 2,263,816 square kilometres (874,064 sq mi) of exclusive economic zone and 679,800 square kilometres (262,500 sq mi) of territorial sea, [3]: 1 of which 184,600 square kilometres (71,300 sq mi) is ...
British Virgin Islands: 1,134 1 1,135 Barbados: 852 6 857 Palau: 813 10 823 Saint Kitts and Nevis: 670 4 674 Guam: 352 108 460 US Virgin Islands: 420 8 428 Bermuda: 392 392 Dominica: 290 3 293 Sint Maarten: 253 253 Northern Mariana Islands: 189 41 230 Cayman Islands: 125 88 213 Botswana: 38 171 209 Bhutan: 9 191 200 Aruba: 172 2 174 Eswatini: 65
[2] [11]: 38 In 2022, skipjack made up 50.04% of tuna production. [12]: 63 The bigeye tuna and bullet tuna are caught in some quantity, [13]: 9, 13 while the albacore tuna, longtail tuna, striped bonito, and Pacific bluefin tuna are caught in minor quantities. Aside from frigate tuna, bullet tuna, and eastern little tuna, these species are ...
The Philippines' Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (Filipino: Kawanihan ng Pangisdaan at Yamang-tubig, [2] abbreviated as BFAR), is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture responsible for the development, improvement, law enforcement, management and conservation of the Philippines' fisheries and aquatic resources.
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From 2013 to 2022, municipal capture fishery production has declined across 10 of the 17 regions, most significantly in the Central Visayas region where production decreased 42.61% (32,867.51 metric tons) over that time. Production in Bangsamoro, Metro Manila, and the Davao Region went against the overall trend, increasing during this time.