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RHODE ISLAND FISH LANDINGS IN DOLLARS 



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$90,nO0-r 

 $80,000 • • 

 $70,000 -^^^^ 

 $60,000- 

 $50,000- 

 $40,000- 

 $30,000- 

 $20,000- 

 $10,000 

 $0 



$H5.III 



$112, 4RS 



$75,182 



$77,fi>» 



$7n,S';2 $70,(116 



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Rhode Island Fish Landings 



(In thousands of dollars) 



1385 



1986 



1987 



1988 



1989 



1990 



1991 



1992 



Squid 



Whiting 



Macterel 



Lobster 



Angler 



Yellowtail 



Scup 



Cod 



Butterfish 



Quohogs (meats) 



Blacktjack (Winter Flounder) 

 Fluke (Summer Flounder) .... 

 Unclassified fish 



Total 



$2,891 



2,360 



221 



14.714 

 923 

 2,347 

 5,041 

 1,906 

 2,475 



15,011 

 4,150 

 7,855 



10,129 



$4,611 



2,486 



137 



16.217 

 1.130 

 3,117 

 3,615 

 1.216 

 4.690 



15.705 

 3,068 

 9,085 



10,012 



$3,930 



4,112 



92 



17,828 

 1,427 

 2.011 

 2.865 

 1.350 

 5,282 



15,628 

 3,502 

 7,763 



11,627 



$7,613 



2.744 



409 



15,569 

 1,622 

 1,223 

 4.017 

 1,557 

 2,197 



14,464 

 2,307 

 7,006 

 8,544 



$12,524 

 2,319 

 1,552 



17,930 

 1,757 

 1,507 

 2.488 

 1,898 

 2,422 



13,799 

 2,263 

 5,272 

 9.673 



$9,243 

 3,645 

 2,041 



19,491 

 2,222 

 3,909 

 2,075 

 2,258 

 1,749 



12,184 

 1.529 

 3,155 

 9,388 



$15,166 

 3,881 

 2,599 



20,373 

 5,829 

 2,827 

 2.914 

 2,891 

 2,041 



13,739 

 1,710 

 3,120 

 8,021 



70.016 



73.382 



77,691 



69,272 



75,004 



72,889 



85,111 



$18,562 

 3,914 

 2,603 



21,364 

 5,228 

 1.131 

 3,263 

 1,661 

 2.597 



10,986 

 1,723 

 4,256 

 8,383 



85,681 



[Attachments B and C may be found in the committee files.] 



Prepared Statement of Gail L. Johnson, Maine Fishermen's Wives 



Association 



I am Gail Johnson and I thank you for providing an opportunity to speak on the 

 New England and national fisheries issues. I have been active in the fisheries in 

 different ways since the 1960s. I am a founding member of the Maine Fishermen's 

 Wives Association and Blue Water Fishermen's Association. 



At present our vessel winter-fishes for groundfish in the Gulf of Maine and in the 

 continental shelf canyons with hook/cable gear. From about May to December we 

 fish off the Grand Banns of Newfoundlanafor swordfish, tunas and other species 

 using pelagic longline gear. 



My goal is to have a viable fishery that allows a great number of people to gain 

 employment, allows a healthy marine biomass, and provides a product to the nation 

 at a reasonable price. 



We need to be reminded of the basic wisdom of the Magnuson Act's precepts. The 

 fisheries have 'changed since the Act's implementation, but the basic principles re- 

 main the same. In my opinion, they are: 



1) dividing the nation's fisheries into separate areas of management that recog- 

 nize the very different issues, socio-economic needs, and environmental systems of 

 those areas. 



2) understanding that the populations of fish stocks exist in a continuous state 

 of flux. They are neither up nor down all at once. Nature not only abhors vacuums. 



