APPENDIX "B" 



BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES SOURCES 

 OF INFORMATION ON THE SHRIMP INDUSTRY" 



Statistics on the shrimp fisheries compiled and published 

 regularly by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the United States 

 Fish and Wildlife Service are included principally in reports con- 

 cerning all fisheries. Other published data provide members of the 

 fishery industry and other interested persons with up-to-date marketing 

 information. This information, while not always complete because of 

 the Bureau's desire to keep the data current, can be considered 

 representative of current trends in the fishery. More complete data, 

 published on a monthly and an annual basis, form the basis for economic 

 research and, at the same time, furnish valuable information for 

 biological studies of shrimp populations. 



Shrimp marketing information of current interest to the 

 industry is published daily by several of the Bureau's Market News 

 Offices. The data included in these reports pertain to daily landings 

 of shrimp at principal fishing ports, daily wholesale prices at two 

 principal distributing centers, daily and weekly movements and inven- 

 tories of frozen products for specified areas, weekly canned packs, 

 weekly imports from Mexico, monthly imports and exports by country of 

 origin and destination. The Market News Offices issuing these reports 

 are located in New Orleans, Louisiana; Hampton, Virginia; New York 

 City, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Boston, Massachusetts; San Pedro, 

 California; and Seattle, Washington. 



The Bureau's Branch of Statistics publishes monthly and 

 annual Shrimp Landings b ulletins. These reports, first issued in 

 January 1956, contain data on the quantity and value of the domestic 

 landings of shrimp, by variety and size, in the States bordering the 

 Gulf of Mexico. Beginning with July 1956 similar data for the States 

 of the South Atlantic Region are being collected. An additional report 

 on shrimp landings is available which includes detailed data on fishing 

 trips and days fished as well as statistical tabulations of catches by 

 species, size, depth of water where taken, and area of capture in the 

 Gulf of Mexico. These reports are the first issiied by the Bureau 

 providing detailed coverage for a single species. 



Additional statistical publications of the Bureau, which 

 include information on shrimp, are the monthly and annual Fish Land - 

 ings bulletins for the States of North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 

 Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas released in cooperation with the 

 fishery agencies of the various states ^ The bulletins contain data 

 on the quantity of shrimp landed, by coastal areas. The Texas report, 

 in addition, includes data on the catch by gear and by waters. Two 

 annual publications of the Service, South <^tlantic Fisheries and Gulf 

 Fisheries, include data on the catch and value, number of fishermen, 



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