On Tuesday, NOAA’s Gulf of Mexico Data Management division released July shrimp landings data for the Gulf of Mexico.
For the month, over 8.0 million pounds of shrimp were reported as landed in the Gulf of Mexico, up from 6.7 million pounds in July 2016. Nevertheless, this total was still significantly below (31.9 percent) the prior fifteen year historical average of 11.8 million pounds in the month of July.
Landings of shrimp in Louisiana last month, 2.5 million pounds, were the second-lowest reported for any July over the sixteen year period tracked by the Southern Shrimp Alliance, with only July of 2010 (1.3 million pounds) registering a lower volume shrimp harvest. Shrimp landings in Louisiana last month were nearly half of the prior fifteen-year historical average of 4.5 million pounds for the month of July.
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