NOAA released shrimp statistics from the Gulf of Mexico for the first month of 2017.
In total, 3.5 million pounds of shrimp were landed in the Gulf in January, the largest volume of shrimp reported since 2013. Landings for the region were still 16.5% below the fifteen-year historic average for the month of January, but the total landings were the eighth highest recorded over the sixteen-year timespan for which the Southern Shrimp Alliance has tracked NOAA’s data.
January accounts for only a small portion of annual Gulf shrimp landings (generally between 3% and 5%).
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