Alaska Commercial Fisheries top Nation in 2015.

• Position: ALASKA TRENDS

Alaska Commerical Landings Data Collection

Alaska Data provided by the Alaska Fisheries Information Nework (AKFIN https://www.akfin.org). Landings estimates are derived by combining NMS Alaska Regional Office's new Catch Accounting System for groundfish and the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission-sourced fish tickets for species other than groundfish. NOAA

At Sea Processed Catches

Catches of Alaska pollack, pacific whiting, and other Pacific groundfish that are processed at-sea aboard US vessels in the northeastern Pacific are credited as 'landings' to the state nearest the area of capture. Information is unavailable for landing port or percentage of catch transferred to transport ships for delivery to foreign ports. These at-sea processed fishery products, on a round (live) weight basis, exceeded 1.5 million metric tons in 2015. and made up 33 percent of the total domestic landings in the fifty states. NOAA

Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Commercial Fisheries

US Domestic Commercial Fishery Landings and Value 2015 Alaska Pacific Coast Total US Thousand Pounds 6,038,185 6,791,476 9,717,627 Metric Tons 2,738,903 308,593 4,407,887 Thousand Dollars 1,763,425 2,296,363 5,203,004 * Alaska had the top three leading US ports in quantity of commercial fishery landings

* Alaska had the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th leading US ports in value of commercial fishery landings

* Alaska had thirteen of the top fifty ports in landings and value; 26%

US Commercial Fisheries Totals 2015

* 9.7 billion pounds * 4.4 million metric tons * $5.2 billion

* Alaska led all states in volume with landings of 6.0 billion pounds; 62%

* Alaska led all states in value of landings with $1.8 billion; 35%

NOAA

Commercial Fishing Species Breakdown

Commercially important species of seafood from Alaska include five species of salmon, five species of crab, walleye pollock, Pacific halibut, Pacific cod, sablefish, herring, four species of shrimp, several species of flatfish and rockfish, lingcod, geoducks, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins.

SHELLFISH

SHRIMP

Coonstriped

General

Northern (pink)

Sidestriped

Spot

CRAB

Bairdi Tanner

Blue King

Dungeness

Golden King

Hair

Opilio Snow Tanner

Red King

AQUATIC FARMING

Pacific Littleneck Clams

Pacific Geoduck Clams

Mussels

Oysters

GROUNDFISH

Linecod

Pacific Cod

Rockfish (3 Species)

Sabfish

Skies

Walleye Pollock

DIVE FISHERIES

Geoduck Clam

Sea Cucumber

Red Sea Urchin

Green Sea Urchin

Pinto Abalone

SALMON

Chinook

Sockeye

Coho

Pink

Chum

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