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Gloucester's 124.1 million pounds
of fish and shellfish landed in 2005 is the highest in a generation,
according to the National Marine Fishery Service. The highest total
in recent memory was 180.5 million pounds in 1984. Landings here
shrunk to a low of 43.2 million pounds in 2000 and have steadily
increased since then.
The city reached a high ranking of
ninth in 2002 with 78.5 million pounds landed for a value of $41.2
million. But Gloucester fell to 13th in 2003 - landing 88.8 million
pounds valued at $37.8 million - before inching back to 11. The
lowest it ranked in the last 10 years was 39th in 1996.
Portland, on the other hand, has
been shrinking since its recent high of 86.6 million pounds in 2001
to 56.8 million pounds in 2005.
New Bedford, nearly double the
value of the second-largest port, Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, Alaska,
had 153.4 million pounds of seafood valued at $282.5 million. The
next most valuable New England port is Gloucester.
Calomo said he backs a proposal to
allow Maine draggers to land their lobster bycatch in Maine because
it would help the groundfishermen along the Maine coast. But,
confirming that a number of Maine vessels land lobsters and
groundfish here, he said he expects them to keep coming to
Gloucester.
National port ranking
Top ports ranked by value of seafood
| 1. New Bedford - $282.5 million |
| 2. Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, Alaska - $166.1 million
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| 3. Kodiak, Alaska - $95.8 million |
| 4. Hampton Roads, Va., area - $85.2 million |
| 5. Cape May and Wildwood, N.J. - $68.4 million |
| 6. Honolulu, Hawaii - $57.2 million |
| 7. Dulac and Chauvin, La. - $54.6 million |
| 8. Naknek and King Salmon, Alaska - $54.3 million |
| 9. Seward, Alaska - $52.2 million |
| 10. Cordova, Alaska - $ 46.5 million |
| 11. Gloucester - $45.9 million |
Top ports ranked by pounds of seafood
| 1. Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, Alaska - 887.6 million |
| 2. Intracoastal City, La. - 464 million |
| 3. Reedville, Va. - 373.4 million |
| 4. Kodiak, Alaska - 337.2 million |
| 5. Empire and Venice, La. - 170.8 million |
| 6. Astoria, Ore. - 164.7 million |
| 7. Pascagoula and Moss Point, Miss. - 159.1 million |
| 8. New Bedford - 153.4 million |
| 9. Los Angeles - 139.2 million |
| 10. Gloucester - 124.1 million |
Gloucester's rank by value since 1995
| * 1995: 29 with $25.5 million |
| * 1996: 39 with $24.3 million |
| * 1997: 30 with $23.5 million |
| * 1998: 20 with $28.4 million |
| * 1999: 28 with $25.6 million |
| * 2000: 25 with $41.9 million |
| * 2001: 22 with $38 million |
| * 2002: 9 with $41.2 million |
| * 2003: 13 with $37.8 million |
| * 2004: 12 with $42.8 million |
| * 2005: 11 with $45.9 million |
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