Shrimp landings data from the Gulf of Mexico for March 2016 has now been released by NOAA.
In total, 3.5 million pounds of shrimp were landed in the Gulf last month. The Southern Shrimp Alliance has compiled landings data reported by NOAA back to 2001. Just as with the landings data reported for the month of February, the volume of shrimp landed in the Gulf last month is the single largest for the month of March in that sixteen-year time period. Overall, the total amount of shrimp landed for the month was 59.9% higher than the fifteen-year historical average (2.2 million pounds).
The reported increase in March landings resulted from an unprecedented amount of landings in Texas, totaling 1.8 million pounds of shrimp. Since 2001, the largest amount of shrimp landed in Texas during the month of March was 1.4 million pounds in 2011. Last month, landings in the state were more than double (118.4%) the previous fifteen-year historic average for the month.
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