Sorsogon Bay

The bay of Sorsogon ( Sorsogon Bay English ) is a large bay in the southeast of the island of Luzon, Philippines. It is the easternmost Meeresausbuchtung the Sibuyan Sea and is almost completely surrounded by the Bicol Peninsula. It opens in the West Ticao Passage. The bay covers an area of approximately 201 km ² and is a rather shallow bay, the depth of one half to 10 meters, achieved at the output Ticao Passage depths are measured up to 30 meters. The coastline of the bay is characterized by a mixture of mangrove forests, rocky shores and sandy beaches. To her, the boroughs of Sorsogon City, Magallanes, Juban, Casiguran and Castilla.

The bay of Sorsogon is regarded as a fruitful fishing area in the province of Sorsogon. Investigations of the fisheries sector and the provincial authorities gave in 1995 an annual catch of 5585.62 tons, of this life about 5000 families. Fish stocks in the bay are composed of 56 species of cartilaginous and bony fish, which again split into 223 species.

The seabed in the Bay consists mostly of silt and mud floors, near the coast this turns into sand and coarse-grained sedimentary soils. The salinity in the bay is described as low, as numerous rivers and streams flow into it. In the northwest hinterland, the Pocdolberge and southeastern hinterland of the volcano Bulusan raise.