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Fisheries of the United States - 2009This publication is a preliminary report for 2009 on commercial and recreational fisheries of the United States with landings from the U.S. territorial seas, the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and on the high seas. This annual report provides timely answers to frequently asked questions. SOURCES OF DATAInformation in this report came from many sources. Field offices of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), with the generous cooperation of the coastal states, collected and compiled data on U.S. commercial landings and processed fishery products. The NMFS Fisheries Statistics Division in Silver Spring, MD, managed the collection and compilation of recreational statistics, in cooperation with various States and Interstate Fisheries Commissions, and tabulated and prepared all data for publication. Sources of other data appearing in this publication are: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. PRELIMINARY AND FINAL DATAData on U.S. commercial landings, employment, prices, production of processed products, and recreational catches are preliminary for 2008. Final data will be published in other NMFS Current Fishery Statistics publications. The Fisheries Statistics Division of NMFS takes this opportunity to thank states, industry, and foreign nations who provided the data that made this publication possible. Program leaders of the field offices were: David Ulmer, Ted Hawes, Joan Palmer and Joan Barry for the New England, Middle Atlantic, and Chesapeake states; Scott Nelson, U.S. Geological Survey, for the Great Lakes states; David Gloeckner, Guy Davenport, and Jay Boulet for the South Atlantic and Gulf states; Bill Jacobson, for California; David Hamm, for Hawaii and Pacific Islands; Geoff White, Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistical Program, for data from Maine to Virginia; Brad Stenberg, Pacific Fisheries Information Network, data for Oregon and Washington; and Robert Ryznar and Camille Kohler, Alaska Fisheries Information Network, for Alaska. NOTESThe time series of U.S. catch by species and distance from shore included in this year’s “Fisheries of the U.S.” is estimated by the National Marine Fisheries Service. As in past issues of this publication, the units of quantity and value are defined as follows unless otherwise noted: U.S. landings are shown in round weight (except mollusks which are in meat weight); quantities shown for U.S. imports and exports are in product weight, as reported by the U.S. Bureau of the Census; the value of the U.S. domestic commercial landings is exvessel; in the Review Section on important species, deflated exvessel prices are shown. The deflated value was computed using the Gross Domestic Products Implicit Price Deflator using a base year 2000; the value for U.S. imports is generally the market value in the foreign (exporting) country and, therefore, excludes U.S. import duties, freight charges and insurance from the foreign country to the United States. The value for exports is generally the value at the U.S. port of export, based on the selling price, including inland freight, insurance, and other charges. Countries and territories shown in the U.S. foreign trade section are established for statistical purposes in the Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated (International Trade Commission) and reported by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. SUGGESTIONSThe Fisheries Statistics Division wishes to provide the kinds of data sought by users of fishery statistics, and welcomes comments or suggestions that will improve this publication. Address all comments or questions to: Members of the Office of Science and Technology in Silver Spring who helped with this publication were: Daryl Bullock, Lauren Dolinger Few, Josanne Fabian, John Foster, Tim Haverland, Steven Koplin, Anjunell Lewis, Alan Lowther, Elizabeth Pritchard, Erin Steiner, Glen Taylor, Alex Valderrama, David Van Voorhees, Henny Winarsoo, and Melissa Yencho. The entire publication is available for download or you may view individual chapters:
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