Fisheries--Quantity and Value of Domestic Catch statistics


	Quantity (mil. lb. ¹)
				Value	Average
YEAR			For	(mil.	price
		For	indus-	dol.)	per lb.
	Total	human	trial		(cents)
		food	products ²

1970	4,917	2,537	2,380	613	12.5
1971	5,018	2,441	2,577	651	13.0
1972	4,806	2,435	2,371	748	15.6
1973	4,858	2,398	2,460	937	19.3
1974	4,967	2,496	2,471	932	18.7
1975	4,877	2,465	2,412	977	20.0
1976	5,388	2,775	2,613	1,349	25.0
1977	5,271	2,952	2,319	1,554	29.5
1978	6,028	3,177	2,851	1,854	30.7
1979	6,267	3,318	2,949	2,234	35.6
1980	6,482	3,654	2,828	2,237	34.5
1981	5,977	3,547	2,430	2,388	40.0
1982	6,367	3,285	3,082	2,390	37.5
1983	6,439	3,238	3,201	2,355	36.6
1984	6,438	3,320	3,118	2,350	36.5
1985	6,258	3,294	2,964	2,326	37.2
1986	6,031	3,393	2,638	2,763	45.8
1987	6,896	3,946	2,950	3,115	45.2
1988	7,192	4,588	2,604	3,520	48.9
1989	8,463	6,204	2,259	3,238	38.3
1990	9,404	7,041	2,363	3,522	37.5
1991	9,484	7,031	2,453	3,308	34.9
1992	9,637	7,618	2,019	3,678	38.2
1993	10,467	8,214	2,253	3,471	33.2
1994	10,461	7,936	2,525	3,807	36.8
1995	9,788	7,667	2,121	3,770	38.5
1996	9,565	7,474	2,091	3,487	36.5
1997	9,842	7,244	2,598	3,448	35.0
1998	9,194	7,173	2,021	3,128	34.0

1 Live weight.
2 Meal, oil, fish solubles, homogenized condensed fish, shell products, bait, and animal food.
3 Represents record year.

Source: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Fishery Statistics of the United States, annual; and Fisheries of the United States, annual.

http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1 **************************************************************************************** The collection of U.S. commercial fisheries landings data is a joint state and federal responsibility. The cooperative State-Federal fishery data collection systems obtain landings data from state-mandated fishery or mollusk trip-tickets, landing weighout reports provided by seafood dealers, federal logbooks of fishery catch and effort, and shipboard and portside interview and biological sampling of catches. State fishery agencies are usually the primary collectors of landings data, but in some states NMFS and state personnel cooperatively collect the data. Survey methodology differs by state, but NMFS makes supplemental surveys to ensure that the data from different states and years are comparable.

Statistics for each state represent a census of the volume and value of finfish and shellfish landed and sold at the dock rather than an expanded estimate of landings based on sampling data. Principal landing statistics that are collected consists of the pounds and ex-vessel dollar value of landings identified by species, year, month, state, county, port, water and fishing gear. Most states get their landings data from seafood dealers who submit monthly reports of the weight and value of landings by vessel. Increasingly, however, states are switching to mandatory trip-tickets to gather landings data. At the conclusion of every fishing trip, seafood dealers and fishermen indicate their landings by species on trip-tickets and may be required to record other data such as fishing effort and area fished.

Landings are reported in pounds of round (live) weight for all species or groups except univalve and bivalve mollusks, such as clams, mussels, oysters and scallops, which are reported as pounds of meats (excludes shell weight). Our landings data may sometimes differ from state-reported landings due to our reporting of mollusks in meat weights rather than gallons, shellweight, or bushels. Also, we include some species such as kelp and oysters that are sometimes reported by state agricultural agencies and may not be included with state fishery agency landings data.

Landings do not include aquaculture products except for clams, mussels and oysters. ****************************************************************************************

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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