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Economic impacts of Commercial Fishing

• Grady Gordon

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JOBS

• 20,860 jobs fishing
• 1,247 processing jobs
• 536 retail sales jobs
• 3,851 jobs in foodservice dealing with seafood

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The Value of Fish
228.5 million pounds of finfish, shell fish, and
crustaceans 109.2 million dollars to NC
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What is being caught
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Who is the Problem?
http//www.oifishingcenter.com http//www.thebigro
ck.com According to recreational fishermen the
commercial fleet is the problem However the
recreational fleet is killing fish each and every
weekend
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Why manage for Commercial fishing?

• Jobs
• Revenue for NC
• History

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Questions?