Fishery Products -- Domestic Catch, Imports, and Disposition statistics

[Live weight, in millions of pounds (11,357 represents 11,357,000,000), except percent. For data on commercial catch for selected countries, see Table 1394, Section 30, Comparative International Statistics}



ITEM	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998


Total..	11,357	11,353	12,011	12,352	12,552	15,150	14,368	15,744	14,628	15,485	16,349	16,364	16,106	20,334	19,309	16,484	16,474	17,131	16,897

For human food..	8,006	8,267	7,968	8,413	8,498	9,337	9,620	10,561	10,505	12,268	12,662	13,020	13,242	13,821	13,714	13,584	13,625	13,739	14,175
Finfish..	6,139	6,316	6,090	6,358	6,303	6,991	7,087	7,919	7,786	9,735	10,120	10,186	10,297	10,796	10,719	10,692	10,699	10,577	10,836
Shellfish ¹.	1,867	1,951	1,878	2,055	2,195	2,346	2,533	2,642	2,719	2,533	2,542	2,834	2,945	3,025	2,995	2,892	2,927	3,162	3,339
For industrial use..	3,351	3,086	4,043	3,939	4,054	5,813	4,748	5,183	4,123	3,217	3,687	3,344	2,864	6,513	5,595	2,900	2,848	3,392	2,722

Domestic catch..	6,482	5,977	6,367	6,439	6,438	6,258	6,031	6,896	7,192	8,463	9,404	9,484	9,637	10,467	10,461	9,788	9,565	9,845	9,194
Percent of total..	57.1	52.7	53.0	52.1	51.3	41.3	42.0	43.8	49.2	54.7	57.5	58.0	59.8	51.5	54.2	59.4	58.1	57.5	54.4
For human food..	3,654	3,547	3,285	3,238	3,320	3,294	3,393	3,946	4,588	6,204	7,041	7,031	7,618	8,214	7,936	7,667	7,476	7,248	7,174
Finfish..	2,516	2,414	2,324	2,351	2,348	2,273	2,240	2,769	3,306	4,897	5,747	5,564	6,182	6,746	6,612	6,414	6,205	5,969	5,935
Shellfish ¹.	1,138	1,133	961	887	972	1,021	1,153	1,177	1,282	1,307	1,294	1,467	1,436	1,468	1,324	1,252	1,271	1,279	1,239
For industrial use..	2,828	2,430	3,082	3,201	3,118	2,964	2,638	2,950	2,604	2,259	2,363	2,453	2,019	2,253	2,525	2,121	2,090	2,597	2,020

Imports ².	4,875	5,376	5,644	5,913	6,114	8,892	8,337	8,848	7,436	7,022	6,945	6,879	6,469	9,867	8,848	6,696	6,909	7,286	7,703
Percent of total..	42.9	47.3	47.0	47.9	48.7	58.7	58.0	56.2	50.8	45.3	42.5	42.0	40.2	48.5	45.8	40.6	41.9	42.5	45.6
For human food..	4,352	4,720	4,683	5,175	5,178	6,043	6,227	6,615	5,917	6,064	5,621	5,989	5,624	5,607	5,778	5,917	6,150	6,491	7,001
Finfish..	3,623	3,902	3,766	4,007	3,955	4,718	4,847	5,150	4,480	4,838	4,373	4,622	4,115	4,026	4,107	4,278	4,494	4,608	4,901
Shellfish ¹.	729	818	917	1,168	1,223	1,325	1,380	1,465	1,437	1,226	1,248	1,367	1,509	1,581	1,672	1,639	1,656	1,883	2,100
For industrial use ³.	523	656	961	738	936	2,849	2,110	2,233	1,519	958	1,324	890	845	4,260	3,070	779	759	795	702

Disposition of domestic catch..	6,482	5,977	6,367	6,439	6,438	6,258	6,031	6,896	7,192	8,463	9,404	9,484	9,637	10,467	10,461	9,788	9,565	9,846	9,194
Fresh and frozen..	2,621	2,547	2,550	2,304	2,336	2,242	2,487	3,157	3,813	5,585	6,501	6,541	7,288	7,744	7,475	7,099	7,054	6,877	6,870
Canned..	1,161	1,118	891	1,087	1,128	1,232	1,134	1,009	1,017	798	751	674	543	649	622	769	678	648	516
Cured..	96	90	85	80	82	70	60	89	86	128	126	119	100	115	95	90	93	108	129
Reduced to meal, oil, etc..	2,604	2,222	2,841	2,968	2,892	2,714	2,350	2,641	2,276	1,952	2,026	2,150	1,696	1,959	2,269	1,830	1,740	2,213	1,679

NA Not available.
1 For univalve and bivalve mollusks (conchs, clams, oysters, scallops, etc.), the weight of meats, excluding the shell, is reported.
2 Excludes imports of edible fishery products consumed in Puerto Rico; includes landings of tuna caught by foreign vessels in American Samoa.
3 Fish meal and sea herring.

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

http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1 * CANNED FISHERY PRODUCTS. Fish, shellfish, or other aquatic animals packed in cans, or other containers, which are hermetically sealed and heat-sterilized. Canned fishery products may include milk, vegetables, or other products. Most, but not all, canned fishery products can be stored at room temperature for an indefinite time without spoiling.

CURED FISHERY PRODUCTS. Products preserved by drying, pickling, salting, or smoking; not including canned, frozen, irradiated, or pasteurized products. Dried products are cured by sun or air-drying; pickled or salted products are those products preserved by applying salt, or by pickling (immersing in brine or in a vinegar or other preservative solution); smoked products are cured with smoke or a combination of smoking and drying or salting.

INDUSTRIAL FISHERY PRODUCTS. Items processed from fish, shellfish, or other aquatic plants and animals that are not consumed directly by humans. These items contain products from seaweeds, fish meal, fish oils, fish solubles, pearl essence, shark and other aquatic animal skins, and shells.

LANDINGS, COMMERCIAL. Quantities of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic plants and animals brought ashore and sold. Landings of fish may be in terms of round (live) weight or dressed weight. Landings of crustaceans are generally on a live-weight basis except for shrimp which may be on a heads-on or heads-off basis. Mollusks are generally landed with the shell on, but for some species only the meats are landed, such as sea scallops. Data for all mollusks are published on a meat-weight basis.

* 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.

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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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