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of Mexico shrimp fishery and are stored on magnetic tape and used in pre- 

 paring the two shrimp bulletins (see below). 



The NMFS collects and publishes several series of direct interest for 

 fisheries management. These include the following: 



1. Commercial Fisheries Data 



a. Current Fishery Statistics (CFS) Series 



(1) Commercial Landings by States 



This series is issued for each state as a preliminary bulletin 

 on commercial landings by species. They are issued monthly and 

 annually for Atlantic and Gulf Coast states. They do not cover 

 the Pacific Coast states or Alaska. The data reported include 

 catch by species by month and landed value by species by month. 



(2) Regional Summaries 



These are sectional siimmary bulletins which are published later 

 in Fishery Statistics of the U.S. (Statistical Digest) in some- 

 what more detail and with a text. The regions covered in this 

 series are New England Fisheries, Middle Atlantic Fisheries, 

 Chesapeake Fisheries, South Atlantic Fisheries, Gulf Fisheries, 

 Hawaii Fisheries, Great Lakes Fisheries and Mississippi River 

 Fisheries. The data contained in these bulletins are annual 

 data on U.S. commercial landings, fishermen and operating unit 

 data (catch by gear type) , and production of processed products 

 by States. 



(3) Processing Sector and Foreign Trade Bulletins 



This series includes various bulletins which report on a 

 monthly, quarterly and/or annual basis such processing sector 

 data as freezings and holdings, canned products, fish sticks 

 and portion, imports and exports of fishery products and data 

 such as employment and output by product in the processing 

 sector. 



C4) Fisheries of the United States 



This series is published annually as a preliminary report on 

 the fisheries of the U.S. It is designed to provide timely 

 information; more complete information is contained in Fishery 

 Statistics of the U.S. (see below). The latter pxoblication is 

 typically two years late in publication. 



(5) Fishery Statistics of the United States 



These annual reports contain reviews of fishery statistics 

 including data on volume and value of landings of fishery 



