November 1, 2017 — GLOUCESTER, Mass. — Mirroring a national trend, the port of Gloucester in 2016 landed fewer fish than the previous year, even as the value of those fish rose by double digits, according to the annual state of the U.S. fisheries report released on Wednesday.
America’s oldest commercial seaport ranked 15th among the nation’s ports with 63 million pounds of fish landed, a decrease of 5 million pounds, or 7.3 percent, from 2015. But the city’s waterfront ranked 18th in the value of its landings, which increased 18 percent to $52 million in 2016 from $44 million in the previous year.
The Gloucester fishing experience in 2016 reflected a national trend. Throughout the United States, commercial landings of edible and industrial seafood was down 145.6 million pounds, or 1.5 percent, to 9.6 billion pounds. The value of those landings, however, rose 2.1 percent to $5.3 billion.
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