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[1]: 35 Milkfish dominates marine fish cages production, making up 99.91% of output. [1]: 36 Milkfish similarly dominates marine fish pen production, making up 98.38% of the total. [1]: 37 However, the largest mariculture product is seaweed, the production of which made Bangsamoro the most productive fisheries region in 2020. [1]: 10
In 2018, Philippine aquaculture produced 826.01 thousand MT of fish, crustaceans, and mollusks, worth $1.89 billion, the 11th largest national production in the world accounting for 1.01% of global production. [4]: 9 The aquaculture sector made up 41.82% of the value of Philippine fisheries in 2020.
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.
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 ...
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.
According to studies made by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines, this body of water holds one third of the all world's marine biodiversity, thereby making it a very important area for the ecosystem. The Sulu Sea. Map of the Tasman Sea. The Tasman Sea features a number of coastal islands and mid-sea island groups.
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.