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FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 2004 



This publication is a preliminary' report for 2004 on 

 commercial and recreational fisheries of the United 

 States with landings from tlie U.S. territorial seas, the U.S. 

 Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and on the high seas. 

 This annual report provides timelv answers to frequenth' 

 asked questions. 



SOURCES OF DATA 



IntormaUon in this report came from many sources. 

 Field offices of the National Marine Fisheries Service 

 (NMFS), with tlie generous cooperation of the coastal 

 states, collected and compiled data on U.S. commercial 

 landings and processed fishen,- products. 



The NMFS Fisheries Statistics Division in Silver Spring, 

 MD, managed die collection and compilation of recre- 

 ational statistics, in cooperation with various States and 

 Interstate Fisheries Commissions, and tabulated and 

 prepared all data tor publication. Sources of other data 

 appearing in this pubUcauon are: L'.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 Agricul- 

 ture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. 



PRELIMINARY AND FINAL DATA 



Data on U.S. commercial landings, employment, prices, 

 production of processed products, and recreational 

 catches are preliminar}' for 2004. Final data wiU be 

 published in other NMFS Current Fisher)- Statistics 

 publications. 



The Fisheries Statistics Division of NMFS takes this 

 opportunity to thank states, industn,', and foreign nations 

 who provided the data diat made this publication pos- 

 sible. Program leaders of the field offices were: Gregory- 

 Power for the New England, Middle Adantic, and 

 Chesapeake; Scott Nelson, U.S. Geological Survey, Great 

 Lakes States; David Gloeckner, Guy Davenport, and 

 Maggie Williams for the South Adantic and Gulf States; 

 Patricia |. Donley, California; David Hamm, Hawaii and 

 Pacific Islands; David Sutherland, Oregon and Wasliuig- 

 ton; and Robert Ryznar and CarruUe Ruse of the Alaska 

 Fisheries Information Network for Alaska. 



NOTES 



The 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 quantit)- 

 and value are defined as foUows unless otherwise noted: 

 U.S. landings are shown in round weight (except mol- 

 lusks 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 LIS. 

 domestic commercial landings is ex\'essel; m 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) countrv 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. 



SUGGESTIONS 



The Fisheries Statistics Division wishes to provide the 

 kinds ot data sought by users of fishery statistics, and 

 welcomes comments or suggestions tiiat wiU improve 

 tins publication. 



Address all comments or questions to: 



Fisheries Statistics Division, (F/STl) 

 National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA 

 1315 East- West Highway - Rm. 12441 

 Silver Spring, MD 20910-3282 

 PHONE: 301-713-2328 / F.AK: 301-713-4137 

 HOMEPAGE: http:/www.st.nmfs.gov/stl / 



Members of the Office of Science and Technolog)- in 

 Silver Spnng who helped with this publication were: 

 Rob Andrews, Dary-1 Bullock, Tina Chang, Lauren 

 Dolinger Few, josanne Fabian, Brad Gentner, Tim 

 Haverland, Steven Koplin, Jaya Neti, Elizabeth Pritchard, 

 Ronald Salz, Tom Sminkey, David Sutherland, Glen 

 Taylor, William Utdey, David Van Voorhees, Ivristy 

 Wallmo, Lelia Wise, and Patty Zielinski. 



