page_title: Magallanes, Sorsogon
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Magallanes, Sorsogon / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: Magallanes Food Product
context_page_description: Magallanes, officially the Municipality of Magallanes, is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Sorsogon, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 37,038 people.
  According to renowned historians and anthropologists such as Domingo Abella, Luis Camara Dery, Merito Espinas, F. Mallari, Norman Owen, Mariano Goyena del Prado, et al., Magallanes is also the present location of the ancient settlement of Ibalong.
context_section_description: Magallanes is primary considered a coastal town as 24 of its 34 barangays are situated along the seashore and with the abundant marine resource, the natives take to the sea daily for their food and livelihood.
  Marine and fishpond fishing are the town's prime industry despite large agricultural lands being engaged as well in crop and livestock production. Fish drying is a common practice among the locals after which the produce is sold to neighboring towns. For the fishpond culture, they are able to produce milkfish, tilapia, prawns and mud crab.  The variety of ways the marine and inland fishing produce are processed include sardine in oil, bangus in oil, dried posit, dilis tuyo, daing and tinapa.
  Sardine and Bangus in Oil are OTOP products processed by the Magallanes Food Products while the dried and smoke fish are processed by the Bacolod Women's Cooperative and by the fish folks themselves.
  Crops production of rice, corn, coconut, fruit trees, vegetables and root cops make an abundant produce for the town. Of these crops, coconut accounts about 96.15% making it the dominant major product.
caption: Magallanes Processed Products
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