1999 

 NATIONAL OVERVIEW 



Degree of fisheries utilization of the resource 



Unit number and fishery 



1 Northeast demersal 



2 Northeast pelagic 



3 Atlantic anadromous 



4 Northeast invertebrate 



5 Atlantic highly migratory pelagic 



6 Atlantic shark 



7 Atlantic coastal migraton/ pelagic 



8 Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean reef fish 



9 Southeast drum and croaker 



10 Southeast menhaden 



1 1 Southeast and Caribbean invertebrate 



12 Pacific Coast salmon 



13 Alaska salmon 



14 Pacific Coast and Alaska pelagic 



15 Pacific Coast groundfish 



16 Western Pacific invertebrate 



17. Western Pacific bottomfish and armorhead 



18 Pacific highly migrator/ pelagic 



19 Alaska groundfish (total) 



20 Alaska shellfish 



21 Nearshore 



Subtotal of Units 1-20 



% of Subtotal 



% of 160 "known" stock groups 



Total of Units 1-21 



% of Total 



% of 207 "known" stock groups 



There are 160 stock groups ckissified as being of- known status that are under NMFS 

 purview (Units 1-20 in Table 4). Of these, 34% (S4 out ol 160 known-status groups) are 

 overutilized. 1 he majorirv' ot these overurilized cases occurred in Unit 1 (16 stocks trom 

 the Northeast demersal unit) and Unit 8 (10 stocks of Atlantic and Cull ol Mexico reel 

 fish). The remaining stocks have been classified as 19% underutilized and 47%i lully uti- 

 lized, lor a combined total of 66'Mi not overutilized. 



