PREFACE 



FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1992 



DEFINITIONS - (Also see Glossary) 



This publication is a preliminary report for 1 992 

 on commercial and recreational fisheries of the United 

 States with catches in both the U.S. Exclusive Economic 

 Zones (EEZ) and international waters. This annual report 

 provides timely answers to frequently asked questions. 



SOURCES OF DATA 



Information in this report came from many 

 sources. Field offices of the National Marine Fisheries 

 Service (NMFS), in cooperation with various States, 

 collected and compiled data on U.S. commercial 

 landings and processed fishery products. The NMFS 

 field offices compiled data on the foreign catch from 

 reports submitted by designated foreign officials. The 

 NMFS Fisheries Statistics Division in Silver Spring. MD. 

 managed the collection and compilation of 

 recreational statistics, and tabulated and prepared all 

 data for publication. Sources of other data appearing 

 in this publication are: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 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. Food and Agriculture 

 Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the 

 countries fishing in the U.S. EEZ. 



PRELIMINARY AND FINAL DATA 



Data on U.S. commercial and recreational 

 landings, employment, prices, and production of 

 processed products are preliminary for 1 992. Final data 

 will be published in other NMFS Current Fishery Statistics 

 publications. 



The Fisheries Statistics Division of NMFS takes this 

 opportunity to thank members of states, industry, and 

 foreign nations who provided the data that made this 

 publication possible. 



Program leaders of the field offices were: 

 Ronnee Schultz, New England, Middle Atlantic, and 

 Chesapeake; Tony Frank, Great Lakes Fisheries 

 Commission, Great Lakes States; Kenneth Harris, Guy 

 Davenport. Lee Usie, and Margot Hightower for the 

 South Atlantic and Gulf States; Patricia J. Donley, 

 California and Hawaii; John K. Bishop, Oregon and 

 Washington; and Patsy Bearden, Alaska. 



As in past issues of this publication, the units of 

 quantity and value are defined as follows: U.S. 

 landings are shown in round weight (mollusk shells 

 excluded), unless otherwise noted; quantities shown for 

 U.S. imports and exports are in product weight, as 

 reported by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, unless 

 otherwise noted; the value of the U.S. domestic 

 commercial catch is exvessel; in the Review Section on 

 important species actual and deflated exvessel prices 

 are shown. The deflated value was computed using 

 the Gross Domestic Products Implicit Price Deflator; 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 from the foreign 

 country to the United States, and insurance; 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 of data sought by users of fishery statistics, 

 and welcomes any comments or suggestions that will 

 improve this publication. 



Address all comments or questions to: 



Fisheries Statistics Division, (F/RE1) 

 National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA 

 1335 East-West Highway, Room 8313 

 Silver Spring. MD 20910 

 301-713-2328 



Members of the Fisheries Statistics Division in 

 Silver Spring, who helped with this publication were: 

 Paul Anninos, Amy Buss, Gerry Butler, Edward Dickens, 

 Josanne Fabian, Ray Glass, Gerry Gray. Deborah 

 Hogans, Mark Holliday, Willie Mae Holloway, Steven 

 Koplin, Debbie Marks, Barbara O'Bannon, Maury 

 Osborn, Robert Rosette, Ron Salz, James Sargent, 

 Richard Schween, David Sutherland, William Uffley. 

 David Van Voorhees, Lelia Wse, and John Witzig. 



A special thanks to Donald FitzGibbon for his 

 assistance in preparing this publication. 



