^ / MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES 1983 Massachusetts Lobster Fishery Stat i sties Gerald M. Nash Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries INTRODUCTION The commercial lobster fishery of Massachusetts is the most economically important fishery conducted within the territorial waters of the Commonwealth. The overall economic importance of the fishery both in New England and, in recent years, the Mid-Atlantic states, has focused the attention of Federal, Regional and State fishery managers on this species. Initially, in an attempt to standardize management of the fishery, the Federal and State Governments developed an overall lobster fishery management plan under the auspices of the State-Federal Partnership Program. However, with the passage of the Fisheries Management and Conservation Act, the New England Fisheries Management Council, in cooperation with the Mid-Atlantic Council developed a management plan for the entire east coast lobster fishery. The plan has now been adopted. The basis of any such plan and for monitoring the success of the plan is an accurate statistical data base. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with joint funding from the National Marine Fisheries Service, has been collecting annual reports from licensed lobster fishermen for many years. Historically, the data collected was used primarily for descriptive and informational purposes, and occasionally for management. However, with the recent emphasis on Federal management, this data takes on added importance in terms of providing the respective management agencies with adequate information to ensure that the interests of Massachusetts' lobstermen are protected. During the period 1975-1980 the number of coastal commercial lobster permits was limited, by law, to 1300, with an additional 10^ issued to proven hardship cases. In 1981, a statutory change provided for the establishment of a permanent waiting list from which 100 new permits were Issued, and 20 special additional permits which were awarded to full time commercial fishermen who met certain criteria. In subsequent years 80 list permits and 20 special additional permits have been issued. Permits which are not renewed are retired. This report is the seventeenth annual publication of data summarized from 'catch reports submitted by licensed lobster fishermen. Data was presented In a standardized format through 1979. For the 1980 report, data presentation ;Was changed to reflect a more thorough collection and evaluation of the data. 'The new presentation format Is continued In this report. It is anticipated that this format will continue until such time as the Division implements computer processing of the data. This report has been prepared by personnel from the Division of Marine Fisheries Commercial Fisheries Statistics Project, funded jointly by the Commonwealth and the National Marine Fisheries Service under the Commercial Fisheries Research and Development Act (Public Law 88-309). The preparation of this report would not have been possible without the cooperation of the licensed lobstermen who provided the data on their annual reports. Special thanks also go to Nancy Leamy and Mary Ann Gachignard for their assistance in preliminary processing of the catch reports when they are received from the ■ f i shermen. SOURCE OF DATA No person may fish for or take lobsters in coastal waters or land lobsters in the Commonwealth without a permit issued by the Director of the Division of Marine Fisheries (Chapter 130, Mass. G.L., Section 38). Chapter 130, Mass. G.L. Section 23, requires any person so licensed to file an annual report of their catch by January 31 for the preceding calendar year. In 1980, a dual reporting system was established. Commercial lobstermen (coastal, offshore and seasonal) receive a detailed catch report form with their license renewal application. This report requests the following information: method of fishing; number and type of gear used; effort data (set-over day, average number of trips per month, etc.); pounds of lobster taken; areas fished; principal ports of landing; and information relative to the vessels used in the fishery. Recreational fisher- men are asked to report only the number of lobsters taken the previous year on their license renewal application form. Project personnel sort, edit, tabulate and interpret data from all reports received. Data presented in this booklet are based on catch reports actually received and are not expanded to 100 percent levels. EXPLANATION OF TABLES All data presented in this booklet are broken down into two basic cate- gories: the first is "inshore" which represents all data pertaining to all lobster activity taking place within 69° West Longitude and 41° North Latitude; the "offshore" category refers to all data outside of the given coordinates. Tables presenting number of fishermen by license type, number of pots fished, number and value of boats used in the fishery and total landings state- wide, by county and for each city and town were prepared using the catch reports submitted by all commercial fishermen. In keeping with Division policy, some of the data is masked or combined to protect the confidentiality of the individual submitting the report. Data referring to the number of fishermen, number and value of gear, and number and value of boats are presented by the home port of the licensee filing the report. Pounds of lobsters harvested are presented by the port of landing reported by the fishermen. Due to limited data storage capacity of the programmable calculator used to calculate percent of catch by area and month fished and catch per unit of effort, only those reports submitted by holders of commercial coastal licenses coul d be tabu lated. Where tabular materials refers to county, the reader is referred to Figure I. Fishing areas are delineated in Figure 2. P Vessel and SCUBA gear values were calculated on the basis of the fisher- men's estimate of its present value and the percentage of its use specifically for lobstering. Average values were used when the information was omitted from an individual report. When fishermen reported the number of lobsters taken, rather than poundage, a conversion factor of 1.18 pounds per lobster was used to calculate poundage figures. This factor is based on historical data. -2- 1983 HIGHLIGHTS 1. There were 13,643 lobster licenses of a II types issued during 1983: 1,609 coastal commercial; 267 seasonal commercial; 560 offshore and 11,207 non-commercial. 2. A total of 4,264 licensed fishermen (31 percent) failed to file a catch report with the Division. Of the 9,379 fishermen reporting, 1,856 (20 percent) reported that they did not fish for lobsters during 1983. 3. A total of 12,503,824 pounds of lobsters were reported landed. Of these, recreational fishermen reported taking 367,217 pounds, while commercial fishermen reported taking 12,136,607 pounds. Based on a value of $2.44 per pound', the commercial catch was valued at $29,613,321. 4. Commercial fishermen comprised 23 percent of the total number of fishermen reporting and landed 97 percent of the total catch. 5. Non-commercial SCUBA divers represented 23 percent of the fishermen reporting, but landed only 0.5 percent of the total poundage. 6. In total pounds of lobsters landed Essex County ranked first, Plymouth County second and Barnstable County third. 7. In total numbers of commercial fishermen, Essex County ranked first with 662, Plymouth County second with 421, and Barnstable County third with 162. 2 8. In the commercial fishery, pots were valued at $11,383,428 , diving gear at $34,876, and power and non-power boats at $29,465,998, yielding a total gear value of $40,894,302. Combined with the value of lobsters sold, $29,613,321, gives a total fishery value of $70,507,623. 9. Of the 12,136,706 pounds of lobsters landed commercially, 10,356,607 were reported taken inside of 69°W and 41 °N, and of that number 8,654,914 pounds were estimated to have been taken within the territorial waters of the Commonwealth. 10. More lobsters were landed in Boston, 1,092,490 pounds, than in any other Massachusetts port. Gloucester ranked second with 916,494 pounds followed by Westport with 740,202 pounds. 11. Landings by coastal commercial fishermen rose steadily In the spring, peaked in August and then declined. The least amount of lobsters were landed in February. •Ex-vessel price determined by weighted averages of prices listed in the National Marine Fisheries Service "Blue Sheet". ^Based on an average value of $32.50 per pot, Including warp and buoys. -3- 12. According to coastal fishermen, the greatest numbers of lobsters taken inside 69°W and 4I°N were from Boston Harbor (Area 4) followed by Beverly — Salem — Marblehead (Area 3) and Scituate — Marshfield (Area 5). 13. The average catch per trap haul for coastal fishermen was 0.582 pounds. For traps fished for one set-over day the average was 0.442; for those fished two days 0.555; and for three or more set-over days 0.677. -4- Table I. Reporting Status of 1983 Lobster Licensees Licenses Issued Coastal Commercial ($200) 1,609 Seasonal Commercial ($50) 267 Offshore ($200) 560 Non-commercial ($30) I 1 ,207 Total 13,643 Reporting Status Type Not Reporting Reported "Not Fishing" Reported "Fishing" Coastal Commercial 28 (2%) 269 i\7%) 1,312 (81^) Seasonal Commercial 117 (U%) 18 (1%) 132 iA9%) Offshore 120 (2l/o) 297 (53^) 146 (26^) Non-commercial 3,999 (36^) 1,275 (11^) 5,933 (535^) -5' o en CO ^- Q CO Z CQ 3 o O -I a. < —I o < CD > I LU I— 2 3: < 000 2 Q- CD >- cc LU _J X < CO — — C) U- LU q: 2: LU :>. 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City /Town Inside 69°W 4rN Outside eQ^'W 4I°N Total Barnstable 19,933 495,380 515,313 Beverly 582 ,260 582 ,260 Boston 1,075 ,414 17,076 1,092 ,490 Bourne 67 J 99 67 ,199 Chatham 160 ,700 210 160 ,910 Chi Imark 108 ,159 16,421 124 ,580 Cohasset 463 ,625 24 463 ,649 Danvers 58 ,692 58 ,692 Dartmouth 8; ,473 8 ,473 Denni s 48 ,378 48 ,378 Duxbury 46 ,210 46 ,210 Essex 47 ,725 47 ,725 Fairhaven 90 ,583 4,728 95 ,311 Fa Imouth-Mashpee 26 ,91 1 420 27 ,331 Gloucester 834 ,429 82,065 916 ,494 Gosnold 5 ,294 5 ,294 Harwich 88 ,723 170,709 259 ,432 Hi ngham 251 ,803 251 ,803 Hul 1 145 ,988 145 ,988 Ipswich 56 ,507 56 ,507 Kingston 25 ,248 933 26 ,181 Lynn 142 ,791 142 ,791 Manchester 220 ,812 220 ,812 Marblehead 590 ,853 5,353 596; ,206 Marion 2 ,522 2; ,522 Marshf ield 628 ,288 628 ,288 Mattapoisett 37 ,200 2,005 39 ,205 Nahant 361, ,601 361 ,601 Nantucket 45 ,204 760 45 ,964 New Bedford 106, ,972 57,431 164; ,403 Newburyport-Newbury-Sa 1 isbury 79 ,689 79; ,689 Oak Bluffs-Edgartown 1; ,829 1 ,829 Orleans 85 ,658 85 ,658 Plymouth 728 ,900 728; ,900 Provincetown 1 1 1 ,643 1,495 1 13; ,138 Quincy-Braintree 42; ,592 42; ,592 Revere 21; ,329 21, 329 Rockport 409; ,542 409; ,542 Sa lem 94; 763 94; ,763 Sandwich 274; ,357 120,906 395; ,263 Saugus 575; ,455 575; 455 Scituate 450; ,951 603 451; ,554 Swampscott 440, 778 440, ,778 Tisbury 14; ,919 380 15, ,299 Wareham 29; 786 29, 786 Wei If leet-Truro 20; 238 20, 238 Westport 284; ,558 455,644 740, 202 Weymouth 126; .574 126, 574 Winthrop 162; ,782 162, 782 Out-of-state 14; ,316 347,457 361, 773 -16- Table 13. Massachusetts commercial lobster landings inside 69°W and 4I°N by month and area as reported by coastal commercial fishermen in 1985. Month Percent January 0.5 February 0. 1 March 0.3 Apri 1 1.0 May 2.7 June 7.1 July 20.1 August 22.7 September 18.9 October 14.9 November 8.8 December 2.7 Area Percent 1 1.7 2 12.4 3 14.5 4 29.0 5 12.9 6 6.5 7 2. 1 8 6.4 9 1.4 10 4.2 1 1 3.5 12 5.5 99.8^ 00. *Tota I s do not equal 100 percent due to rounding of numbers, -17- COASTAL MAP of MASSACHUSETTS SHOWING STATISTICAL REPORTING AREAS (Counties) 1 . Essex 2. Suffolk 3. Norfolk 4. Plymouth 5. Bristol 6. Barnstable 7. Dukes 8. Nantucket Figure 1 -18- LOBSTERiNG AREAS Between Areas BOUNDARIES dstie Neck, Ipswich Goldsmith Point, AAonchester Red Rock, Lynn Tobias Ledge (Spindle), Scituate High Pines Ledge, Plynxjuth Scussett Beach, Sandwich Griffin Island, Wellfleet Harwich/Chatham Line Woquoit Bay, Falmouth - Cape Poge, AA.V. • Muskeget Island AAass./R.I. Line - Gay Head Note: The seaward boundary of Areas 1 through 7 is the 20 Fathom line. 13 4I« igure 2. Location and description of coastal lobster fishing areas in Massachusetts. -19-