APPENDIX III APPENDIX III 
Employment 
Although employment statistics are published as an 
inventory of personnel employed in the shrimp fishery, the 
figures do not reflect the numbers of personnel involved 
exclusively in harvesting shrimp. Many of those reported 
as shrimp fishermen also harvest crab, groundfish, oysters, 
or lobster. 
The number of fishermen who harvested shrimp in 1972 were: 
Shrimp fishermen 
On boats 
Regular Casual On vessels 
North Atlantic 8) 7/5) IEC)7/ 550 
South Atlantic 5119 818 37, OBE 
Gulf of Mexico 4,787 2 7343 1377 6085 
Pacific coast 38 Ie) 730 
Total Sy AES Snow NE PAS 
Employment data for the processing and wholesaling seg- 
ments of the fishery was not available because these industry 
segments are diversified in terms of the species processed 
and wholesaled. NMFS personnel do not believe it is possible 
to identify the number of persons involved in processing or 
wholesaling the species of a particular fishery. 
Recreational Fishing 
In 1974 NMFS made a pilot recreational fishing survey 
in the Northeastern States. This effort was the first part 
of a national program to annually estimate and report the 
number of recreational fishermen, their finfish and shell- 
fish catch, and their fishing expenditures. 
In the survey of the Northeastern United States the 
1974 recreational catch of northern shrimp is reported to 
have been about 9,000 pounds. According to an NMFS official, 
minimal catches by North Atlantic recreational fishermen 
have little effect on the resource. 
As another part of the national program, NMFS conducted 
a survey in 1975 of the Southeastern and Gulf States. 
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