out to a dlatanco in a fow areaa of approximately 50 milea. In ovory 

 stato, oxcopt Louisiana, the coa.-=;tal fishery did not ozctend much boyond 

 ton milo3 from shoro, Tho croundy t;ora not cotitlnuoua over this entire 

 soction, but tendod to bo scatturod ut th'i tv;o uxtx-cnioj ond r.oro con- 

 centratod iii tho central area, witli Louisiana tho center of production. 

 (so'3 figure 1-2) 



Tho year 19^0 ropraaont s a miloatono in tho hi3toi*y of tho 

 Gulf coast shrimp fiahory. In thtit year the Dry Tortu/^cs f ishary to 

 tho vjoat of tho Florida Keys was intensively iiorkod for thn firut time, 

 and nc'.jly-dsvelopod shrimp fishing grounds in tho Gulf of CaMpeche were 

 beginning to contribute heavily to the landings at Gulf fishing ports. 



The conveniently accessible Dry Tortugas grounds, \jhich uoro 

 discovered by fishermen at a time vrfien a strong market for shrirfip pre- 

 vailed, vjere e:q3loitcd at once, lilrcploratory infonaation rou'jhly out- 

 lining tho fishing grounds for pink shriinp in the Gull" of Coxipocho, on 

 tho other hand, had been obtained as early as 1936 and 1937 by Japanese 

 fishing vessels working under the auspices of the Mexican Govorii.iont, No 

 attciapt to fish these grounds was made until after the terniination of 

 World VJar II hostilities. Prior to that tiitie there was no iKU'ket for 

 the pink species of shrimpj neither were there vessels cctpablo of under- 

 talcing fishing operations in this area. At the same time, and partly 

 because of exploratory fishing operations undci'taken by tho Bureau of 

 Coiiiiftercial Fisheries of tho United States Fish and VJildlife Service, 

 extensive nevr fishing areas for bro\m slo-irup in tho Gulf were dio covered. 

 Figui'Q 1-3 shoi/s the Gulf area sliriiup grouiids that had been cliartod by 

 19^0 ^ri.th the predominating species. 



Additional exploratoxy activities by the Bureau of Go.iunGi'cial 

 Fisheries conducted in the years from 1950 through 19514 have revealed 

 nou shrimp resoui'ces in the Gulf of Mexico, The most iiiportant discov- 

 eries during that period are tho deep-water resources of Royal Red 

 shrivip. This species was aluo I'ound in the Atlantic off Florida during 

 1956 and 1957. 



Doiaostic Shrjjiip Firjhcries Outsido the S outh Atlnntic and Gulf A reas 



Slu'iinp fisheries of coi.iparatively modest proportions exist in 

 the Middle ami North Atlantic Areas as well as in southeastern Alaska, 

 Washuigton, Oregon, and Califoi'nia. The shrimp taken off the coasts of 

 the States of Maine, New York, and Nou Jersey are used chiefly for bait 

 purposes. The Pacific coast catch, for tho most part, is mai'keted pri- 

 marily on the west coast as frozen cooked shrimp. 



In the three West Coast s^^ates of California, Oi-egon, and 

 Washington, shrimping has been of importance in some localities since 

 shortly after the Civil War, In the San Francisco area three species 

 of small shrimp, the beat knovm of which is Cr^go franciscorurn, coiii- 

 monly knovm as "San Francisco Bay shrimp", taken in the Bay were dided 

 and exported to the Orient for many years. The inside waters of Puget 

 Sound have in the past also yielded considerable quantities of shrimp. 



