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ESTIMATED NUMBER OF COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS (1) 

 AND FISHING BOATS (2) BY REGION AND STATE, 1990 - 1991 



1990 



1991 



REGIONS 



VESSELS 



BOATS 



TOTAL 



VESSELS 



BOATS 



TOTAL 



Northeast Fisheries: 



Connecticut 



Delaware 



Maine 



Maryland (3) 



Massachusetts 



New Hampshire 



New Jersey 



New York 



Rhode Island 



Virginia (3) 



South Atlantic 

 and Gulf Fisheries: 

 North Carolina..., 

 South Carolina.... 



Georgia 



Florida 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



Louisiana 



Texas 



West Coast Fisheries: 



Washington 



Oregon 



Alaska 



California 



Hawaii 



Great Lakes 



Fisheries: (4) 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



New York 



Ohio 



Pennsylvania 



Wisconsin 



135 



29 



1,721 



61 



921 



122 



427 



513 



232 



248 



1,014 

 470 

 382 



2,500 

 451 

 704 



3,628 



2, 659 



2,609 

 1,491 

 7,063 

 3,675 



190 



5 

 1 



60 

 2 

 2 



31 

 4 



84 



506 



342 



6,274 



4 



4,654 



447 



1,450 



3, 696 



2,689 









 3 

 79 

 27 

 21 

 22 

 4 

 26 



641 



371 



7,995 



65 



5,575 



569 

 1,877 

 4,209 

 2,921 



248 



5 



4 



139 



29 



23 



53 



8 



110 



130 



26 



1,742 



65 



878 



134 



447 



602 



258 



242 



NA 



5 



10 



62 



2 



4 



30 



86 



40 

 22 



103 



170 



9 



73 



55 



42 



6 



NA 





 

 74 

 29 

 18 

 25 



33 



170 

 48 



1,845 

 65 



1,048 

 143 

 520 

 657 

 300 

 248 



NA 



5 

 10 

 136 

 31 

 22 

 55 



119 



(1) 

 (2) 

 (3) 

 (4) 



NA 



Vessels are documented craft greater than 5 net registered tons. 



Boats are craft less than 5 net registered tons. 



Only Federal collected data are available. Inshore data not available. 



Commercial fishing fleet sizes for the Great Lakes states represent only the number of 



licenses issued by the state; therefore, may not be an accurate total. Tribal data 



are not included in this table. 

 - Not available. 



