Municipal and Sustenance Fishing

As of 2002, there are 1,730 registered fishing boats in Aurora, 945 of which are motorized banca while 785 are non-motorized. The total production in metric ton is reported at 2,379.072 (Table 33). 

Source: PFARO, 2002
* non-coastal

Fishing Facilities/Equipment

The fishing gears commonly used by fishermen include hook and line, nets trawl, beach seine, spear, gill nets, long line, travel fish net, drift gill nets and cast net.

Commonly caught fish species in the municipal fishing grounds of the province are the following:

Blue marlin (malasugi)
Goatfish (almonete)
Yellow fin tuna (bangkulis
big-eyed scad (mataan)
Round scad (galunggong)
Lizard fish (dalag-dagat)
Rainbow runner (salmon)
Flathead (sunog)
Dolphin fish (dorado)
Caballa (talakitok)
Spanish mackerel (tangigue)
Red snapper (maya-maya)
Baracuda (panghaluan)
Indo-pacific mackerel (hasa-hasa)
Juvenile big-eye scad (buraw)
Dogfish shark (pagi)
Lapu-lapu (grouper)
Hammerhead shark (karusan)
Slipmouth (sapsap)
Butterfly fish (alibangbang)
Longpin mojarrah (hubad)
Threadfin beam (saray)