NOAA has now published landing volume data for shrimp caught in the Gulf of Mexico for February 2015.
The Southern Shrimp Alliance’s analysis of NOAA data indicates that shrimp landings for the month of February were the highest for the month since 2009 and the fifth highest volume for the month over the last fifteen years.
For the entire Gulf of Mexico, the shrimp industry landed 2.9 million pounds of shrimp in February 2015. This total represented a 20% increase in the total volume of shrimp landed in both February 2014 and 2013 (2.5 million pounds).
The significant increase in landings was partially driven by a record production month in Alabama, where the 0.6 million pounds reported was the highest total for the state in any February reported in the fifteen year period reviewed by the Southern Shrimp Alliance. The increase was also driven by the largest volume of shrimp landed in Texas in any February (1.3 million pounds) since 2011 (same) and the fifth highest volume for the month over the last fifteen years.
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