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Northern Quahog Harvests
Harvesting Northern Quahogs by commercial fishermen has been a rocky business over the period for which data is available. (Gaps are related to quota regulations to protect the resource.) Otherwise...
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Periwinkle Harvests
Historically low periwinkle harvests by commercial fishermen (averaging about 118,000 pounds per year) suddenly spiked in 1989 to 3.8 million pounds, then crashed to a level since 1993 of averaging...
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Winter Flounder Landings
The boom and bust cycle of winter flounder landings by commercial fishermen has “busted” after a peak in 1982. With the scarcity, price per pound had been climbing until the fishery was closed in 2007....
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Witch Flounder Landings
Commercial fishermen are landing fewer pounds of Witch Flounder than ever since 1950. Very high unusual landings in the 1980s have been followed by a severe decline that has practically eliminated the...
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Wolffish Landings
After declining from 1950 to 1977, landings spiked then crashed with a consistent decline until the fishery was suspended in 2010. During the decline in landings and total value, the price per pound...
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Yellowtail Flounder Landings
This species of the commercial fishery has a post-1950 history familiar to many others: moderate or low production, then a spike with several years of substantial landings, then a crash followed by a...
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Monkfish Landings
Commercial fishermen who harvest monkfish, also known as American goosefish, have had substantial landings for most of the period 1974 through 2011. However, the recent rapid decline since the peak in...
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Urchin Harvests
Once little exploited by commercial fishermen, urchin harvesting began in earnest in the mid-1980s. After reaching a peak in 1993, harvests declined to less than one-tenth of that in the peak year,...
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White Hake Landings
From 1950 through 2005, commercial fishermen have taken an average of 4.5 million pounds of white hake per year. Since 2005 that average has dropped to 1 million pounds, lower than any other period...
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American Plaice Landings
American Plaice had modest landings by commercial fishermen of one to two million pounds from 1950 through 1976. It then jumped to six million per year that, with a few exceptions, was the minimum...
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Atlantic Pollock Landings
From 1950 to about 1974, commercial fishermen saw relatively low total value and prices per pound when landing American Pollock. Then the landings increased and so did the total value and the per...
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Atlantic Redfish
The once substantial landings of Atlantic Redfish by commercial fishermen began a severe, and as yet unending, decline, in 1962. The many years of landings exceeding 60 million pounds has ended, with...
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Skate Landings
Since 1973 the commercial fishery for skate had two, short lived, peaks. It has yet to recover from the decline that began in 1995. The retuen had been modest at best, reaching $.25 per pound...
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Dogfish Landings
After two closures since 1964, a productive skate fishery still eludes commercial fishermen in Maine. The trendline in the Price per Pound chart is not very informative due to the erratic nature of the...
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Atlantic Salmon Landings
The following is abridged from Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife internet site at http://www.maine.gov/ifw/wildlife/species/endangered_species/atlantic_salmon/ (accessed December 2,...
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American Eel Landings
Otherwise known as the Common Eel or Freshwater Eel, they range in size of up to 6 feet for females and up to 2 feet for males. Color is olive-green to brown on the back, with yellow-green on the sides...
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Shrimp Landings
Despite an increasing tonnage of shrimp landings in recent years, the 2013 season will feature a landing quota equal to about 25% of the 2012 season’s landings. Historically the shrimp populations...
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Elver Landings
Elvers are young eels. According to the Maine Department of Marine Resources, “After spawning, the adult eels die. The eggs hatch after several days and develop into a larval stage (leptocephalus)...
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Lobster Landings by Location
Lobster landings occur all along Maine’s long coastline. Stonington in Hancock County is by far the port receiving the largest amount and value of this commercial fishery. Lobster’s $435 million plus...
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Tidal flats are a substantial resource harboring a variety of species, including clams, quahogs, marine worms, lobster larvae, and crabs. These resources are endangered by polluted water runoff from...
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