NOAA has released shrimp statistics from the Gulf of Mexico for February.
In total, 3.2 million pounds of shrimp were landed in the Gulf last month, the third largest harvest recorded for the month going back to 2001. Landings for the region were still 16.0% above the sixteen-year historic average for the month of February. For all of 2017, shrimp landings in the Gulf are only 3.4% below the prior sixteen-year historic average at 6.7 million pounds.
The first two months of the year account for only a small portion of annual Gulf shrimp landings, generally between 4% and 7% of yearly totals.
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