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1 Economic impacts of Commercial Fishing
Grady Gordon

2 JOBS 20,860 jobs fishing 1,247 processing jobs 536 retail sales jobs
3,851 jobs in foodservice dealing with seafood

3 The Value of Fish 228.5 million pounds of finfish, shell fish, and crustaceans $109.2 million dollars to NC

4 What is being caught The top five species landed in 2000 by value and pounds. VALUE: Hard Blue Crabs....$32,076,653 Shrimp $25,404,839 Summer Flounder....$5,991,402 Southern Flounder..$5,645,683 Hard Clams $4,681,053 POUNDS: Atlantic Menhaden ,280,072 Hard Blue Crabs ,794,370 Shrimp ,334,325 Croaker ,122,610 Spiny Dogfish ,546,205

5 Who is the Problem? According to recreational fishermen the commercial fleet is the problem However the recreational fleet is killing fish each and every weekend

6 Why manage for Commercial fishing?
Jobs Revenue for NC History

7 Questions?


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