NOAA has released landings data for shrimp harvested in the Gulf of Mexico for the month of April. These data show that shrimp landings in April were well above historic norms.
Throughout the Gulf, 5.3 million pounds of shrimp were reported as landed in April. This is over twice the fifteen-year historic average for the month (2.5 million pounds) and is far and away the most shrimp landed in an April over the last sixteen years. Prior to this year, the highest volume of shrimp reported as harvested in the Gulf in April was 3.8 million pounds in 2006.
So far this year, 15.7 million pounds of shrimp has been landed in the Gulf of Mexico, an amount 32 percent higher than the prior sixteen-year historical average of 11.8 million pounds. More shrimp has been landed in 2017 compared to the first four months of any year going back to 2001, setting a new high watermark above the 15.6 million pounds landed in 2006.
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