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OVERNMENT DOCUMENT COLLECTION

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MASSACHUSETTS

DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES

1984 Massachusetts Lobster Fishery Statistics

by

Gerald M. Nash, Statistician

Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Recreational Vehicles

Division of Marine Fisheries

Technical Series 19

A contribution of

Commercial Fisheries Research and Development Act

(P.L. 88-309) Project 3-37 1 -D

Approved by Daniel Carter, State Purchasing Agent Publ ication No. : m, 181-22-300-9-85-CR

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 have developed a management plan for the entire east coast lobster fishery. The plan has nam 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 occasior^l ly for management. However, with the recent emphasis on Federal management, this data takes on added Importance in terms of providing the respect ive 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 t)een Issued. Permits which are not renewed are retired.

This report is the eighteenth 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

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the cooperation of the licensed lobstermen who provided the data on their annual reports. Special thanks also go to Mary Ann Gachignard for her assistance in preliminary processing of the catch reports vi^en they are received from the fishermen.

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) received 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; arxj information relative to the vessels used in the fishery. Recreational fishermen are asked to report only the number of lobsters taken the previous year on their license rertewal 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.

E)(PLANATION OF TABLES

All data presented in this booklet are broken down into two basic categories: the first is "inshore" which represents all data pertaining to all lobster activity taking place within 69 degrees It^t Longitude and 41 degrees 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 statewide, 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 sut^mitting 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 f ishermen.

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 could be tabulated.

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Where tabular materials refers to county, the reader is referred to Figure I. Fishing areas are delineated in Figure 2.

Vessel and SCUBA gear values were calculated on the basis

of the fishermen's estimate of its present value and the

percentage of its use specifically for lobster ing. Average

values were used when the information was omitted from an individual report.

When fishermen reported the number of lobsters taken, rather than pour^dage, a conversion factor of 1.18 pounds per lobster was used to calculate poundage figures. This factor is based on historical data.

1984 HIGHLIGHTS

1. There were 13,752 lobster licenses of all types issued during 1984: 1,679 coastal commercial; 227 seasonal commercial; 888 offshore and 1 1 ,518 non-commercial .

2. A total of 3,544 licensed lobstermen (26 percent) failed to file a catch report with the Division. Of the 10,208 fishermen reporting, 2,074 (20 percent) reported that they did not fish for lobsters during 1984.

3. A total of 12,604,065 pounds of lobsters were reported landed. Of these, recreational fishermen reported taking 344,754 pounds, vi^i le commercial fishermen reported taking 12,259,311 pounds. Based on a value of $2.61 per poundl, the commercial catch was valued at $31,996,802.

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 19 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 657, Plymouth County second with 430, and Barnstable County third with 177.

8. In the commercial fishery, pots were valued at $I2,569,8302, diving gear at $33,964, and power and non-power

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boats at $35,480,274, yielding a total gear value of $48,084,068. Combined with the value of lobsters sold, $31,996,802, gives a total fishery value of $80,080,870.

9. Of the 12,259,311 pounds of lobsters landed commercially, 10,088,499 were reported taken inside of 69 degrees lA/est and 41 degrees North, and of that number, 8,019,727 pounds were estimated to have been taken within the territorial waters of the Commonwealth.

10. More lobsters were landed in Boston, 1,137,676 pounds, than in any other Massachusetts port. Gloucester ranked second with 911,010 pounds followed by Westport with 855,183.

11. Landings by coastal commercial iobstermen rose steadily in the spring, peaked in August and then declined. The least amount of lobsters were landed in February and March.

12. According to coastal fishermen, the greatest nuir^er of lobsters taken inside 69 degrees West and 41 degrees North were from Boston Hartx)r (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 0.505 pounds. For traps fished for one set-over day the average was 0.402; for those fished two days 0.497; and for three or more set-over days 0.543.

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.

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Table I. Reporting Status of 1984 Lobster Licensees

Licenses Issued

Coastal Commercial ($200) 1,679

Seasonal Commercial ($50) 227

Offshore ($200) 688

Non-commercia I ($30) I I J 58

Total 13,752

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Coa s ta 1 Comme re i a 1	30 (2%)	296 (1855)	1,353 (80:^)
Seasonal Commercial	92 (4155)	19 (8^)	116 ( 5 1 fo )
Offshore	159 (25%)	355 (52fo)	174 (2555)
Non-commercia 1	3,263 (29fo)	1,404 (l3fo)	6,491 (5855)

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Table 13. Pounds of lobsters by city or town of

City /Town

landed by commercial fishermen (except seasonal) landing in 1984.

Inside 69°W 4 I °N

Outside 6I°W 4I°N

Tota

Barnstable

Beverl y

Boston

Bourne

Chatham

Chi Imark

Cohasset

Danvers

Dartmouth

Denn i s — Ya rmouth

Duxbury

Eastham

Essex

Fairhaven

Fa Imouth

Gloucester

Gosnol d

Harwich

HI ngham

Hul I

I psw ich

Ki ngston

Lynn

Manchester

Marb lehead

Marion

Marshf ield

Mattapoi sett

Nahant

Nantucket

New Bedford

Newburyport — Newbury — Row I ey

Orl eans

Plymouth

Prov i ncetown

Qu i ncy

Revere

Rock port

Sa I em

Sa I i sbury

Sandwich

Saugus

Scituate

Swampscott

Tisbury — Oak Bluffs

Wareham

Wei I f leet — Truro

Westport

Weymouth

Wi nthrop

Out-of-state

75

595

,039

43

128

88

458

53

14

40

39

13

31

91

31

854

13

180

287

148

52

19

196

244

552

4

518

44

305

28

126

56

55

646

104

34

93

341

69

3

198

646

385

477

18

20

12

303

I 17

144

9

630

462

570

504

194

198

242

840

496

675

893

895

100

929

864

166

061

959

676

936

404

984

638

786

559

302

583

964

466

780

396

707

633

991

715

367

310

995

419

126

793

090

967

400

037

499

727

167

421

503

197

312,575	388	,205
	595	,462
98 , 1 06	1,137	,676
	43	,504
2,943	131	J 37
18,954	107	J 52
2,569	460	,81 1
1,690	55	,530
	14	,496
	40	,675
	39	,893
	13	,895
	3!	,100
233,800	325	,729
466	32	,330
56,844	9! 1	,010
	13	,061
29,85!	210,	,810
	287	,676
	148	,936
	52	,404
	19;	,984
5,032	201;	,670
	244;	,786
371	552;	,930
	4;	,302
	518;	583
2,033	46;	,997
5,178	310;	,644
13,709	42;	,489
136,271	262;	,667
	56;	,707
	55;	633
144,680	791;	,671
3,717	108,	432
	34;	367
	93;	310
661	342;	656
	69;	419
	3,	126
212,966	41 1 ;	759
6,901	652;	991
724	386;	691
	477,	400
3,510	21,	547
	20.	499
	12;	727
552,016	855;	183
	1 17,	421
	144,	503
325,245	334,	442

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Table 14. Massachusetts commercial lobster landings inside 69°W and 4 1 °N by month and area as reported by coastal commercial fishermen in 1984.

Month	Percent
January	0.5
February	0.2
March	0.2
Apri 1	0.9
May	3.4
June	5.9
July	12.5
August	22.9
September	19.1
October	18.9
November	1 M
December	4.4

Area	Percent
I	1 .5
2	1 1 .4
3	17.9
4	27.4
5	12.1
6	6.7
7	1 .8
8	6.9
9	0.9
10	3.8
1 1	3.5
12	6.0

100.0 99.9^

^Tota I does not equal 100 percent due to rounding of numbers.

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COASTAL MAP of MASSACHUSETTS SHOWING STATISTICAL REPORTING AREAS (Counties)

I.Essex S.Norfolk S.Bristol T.Dukes

2. Suffolk 4. Plymouth 6. Barnstable 8. Nantucket

Figure 1

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LOBSTERiNG AREAS

Between Areas

BOUNDARIES

Gsstle Neck, Ipswich

Goldsmith Point, AAonchester

Red Rock, Lynn

Tobias Ledge (Spindle), Scituote

High Pines Ledge, Plymouth

Scussett Beach, Sandwich

Griffin Island, Wellfleet

Harwich/QKJtham Line

Woquoit Bay, Falmouth - Cape Poge, A^V. • Muskeget island

Mass./^.I. Line - Gay Head

Note: The seaward boundary of Areas 1 through 7 is the 20 Fathom line.

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Figure 2, Location and description of coastal lobster fishing areas in Massachusetts.