The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) - Catanduanes conducts the 1^st   Quarter 2025 Inland and Aquaculture Fisheries Survey from 17-28 March 2025, which aims to gather information on the volume and price of species caught by inland fishing households and harvested by aquafarm operators.

Four (4) Statistical Researchers are assigned to interview a total of 206 sample enumeration units, of which 160 are inland fishing households and 46 sample aquafarms. The activity will take place across 43 different barangays throughout the municipality of Catanduanes. On 14 March 2025, the hired statistical researchers underwent training that sufficiently acquainted them with the concepts and procedures involved in the data collection process.

The statistics generated from these surveys will serve as input in the compilation of national accounts, research and studies, estimation of the performance of agriculture, policymaking, and program implementation.

Furthermore, the PSA assures respondents that all information collected will be kept strictly confidential. Section 26 of Republic Act 10625 stipulates that individual data furnished by the respondent to statistical inquiries, surveys and censuses of the PSA shall be considered as privileged information and such shall be inadmissible as evidence in any proceedings. The PSA may release data gathered from surveys and censuses only in the form of summaries or statistical tables, in which no reference to an individual, corporation, association, partnership, institution or business enterprise shall appear.