Touted as the “Fishing Capital of the Philippines,” Navotas is considered to be a very important fishing community with 70% of its population deriving their livelihood directly or indirectly from fishing and its related industries like fish trading, fish net mending, and fish processing.

Navotas Fishery Port

Manila Bay provides Navotas with a bountiful source of fish and other marine products which constitute the basic diet of the town's residents. Navotas, home to low marginal fisherman and big-time trawlers, owns the most modern and sophisticated fishing boats dominating the fishing industry today.

Navotas Fishery Port, a modern market complex, is a premiere fish center of the Philippines with an area of 47.5 hectares and is one of the largest in Asia under the supervision of the PFDA (Philippine Fisheries Development Authority). The port is a traditional landing place of commercial fishing boats operating in various fishing grounds in the Philippines situated on 47.5 hectares of reclaimed land at the northeastern section of Manila Bay.

Within the complex is a thriving fishing industry that supplies fish to major markets in Metro Manila. Thousands of buyers visit the port daily where an estimated 20 commercial fishing vessels call port and unload a total volume of about 800 tons. Overland vehicles from different provinces also bring in an additional volume of 50 tons. Outside the complex is a business center with banks, markets, restaurants, and recreational facilities.

Dry-Docking Facilities in Navotas

Though Navotas is not gifted with vast areas of land filled with attractions, it is home to almost all vessels in the archipelago with its many dry docking facilities along the riverside which can accommodate any type of vessel, from fishing boats, passenger vessels, cargo vessels, towing vessels to barges. Dry docking facilities available are as follows:

•    Floating Dry Dock - Located inside PFDA to accommodate large vessels, for dry docking above sea water.
•    Raid Type Dry Docking - Uses a rail and cable pulled by machine to get the vessel off the water.
•    Belt Type Docking - Uses a large 4 wheeled boom with belts of hard materials which are lowered to the water and shipped to the bull of the vessel to easily carry and place it to any part of the shipyard.

Getting around

The most common means for transportation available in the city are buses, jeepneys, taxis, and tricycles. Small but convenient and very affordable tricycles ply around the city. Just say where you are going and they will bring you there as fast as possible. Jeepneys also ply around with their own respective fixed routes.

Take the Roxas Boulevard Extension from Rizal Park. All public transits (bus, jeeps, tricycles and taxis) have routes going to Navotas.