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DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES

1987

Massachusetts

Lobster Fishery

Statistics

by
Thomas B. Hoopes
Assistant Marine Fisheries Biologist

Technical Series 22

A contribution of
Commercial Fisheries Research and Development
(P.L. 88-309) Project 3-416-D

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
James S. Hoyte, Secretary
Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement

Walter E. Bickford, Commissioner

Division of Marine Fisheries

Philip G. Coates, Director

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INTRODUCTION

The commercial lobster fishery of Massachusetts is, economically, the most
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, has developed and implemented a
management plan for the entire east coast lobster fishery. The basis and success
of any such 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, these data take on added importance in
terms of providing the respective management agencies with adequate information
to insure 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 ten percent 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.
In addition, 30 special additional permits 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 twenty - first annual publication of data summarized from
catch reports submitted by licensed lobster fishermen. Data were presented in a
standardized format through 1979. In 1980, presentation was changed to reflect a
more thorough collection and evaluation of the submitted information. This
publication represents the second year in which data processing and evaluation
were completely computerized. As a result new data, previously unobtainable due
to the sheer weight of hand-generated computation, is now readily available.
This publication perpetuates the existing time series, and expands upon areas not
addressed in previous years. All data elements presented in previous reports are
presented here, although they may not be in the same tabular format. This
report does not, however, cover the scope of the Project's existing database and
computational capability. Requests for expanded information should be made to the
Division's Statistics Project.

This report has been prepared by personnel from the Division of Marine
Fisheries Statistics and Data Processing 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 licensed
lobstermen who provided the information on their annual reports. Special thanks
go to Ann Spires for her organizational skills in checking, editing and filing
the reports and for her virtually error-free data entry. A computer is useless
unless it has data to work with and data entry is an extremely tedious task.
Thanks also go to Gerald Nash for ad hoc program requests at even the busiest of
times and to Charles Anderson for his continual help with system development and
upgrades and suggestions concerning this publication.

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 33, 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(student)) 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 days, 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 fishermen are asked to report on their license renewal application
form only the number of lobsters taken during the previous year. However, due I
the fact that recreational licenses are not processed completely at the time of
publication, an addendum will be published at a later date.

Each year 150 Coastal Lobstermen are selected and audited for the records
used to complete the catch portion of their catch report. The Division does this
to assess the amount of error involved in the reporting process. Selection is
done randomly except when fishermen fail an audit. In these cases, they are
audited again the following year. The audit was first instituted in 1977 for the
1976 catch reports. Over the last five years the lobstermen selected for audit
reported landing 5,471,420 pounds. The audit of their records revealed a harvest
of 5,527,517 pounds or a difference of 1.01%.

Project personnel sort, edit, tabulate and interpret data from all reports
received. Data presented in this publication are based on catch reports actually
received as of June 14, 1988, and are not expanded to represent all of the
permits issued in 1987.

EXPLANATION OF TABLES

All data presented in this publication are broken down into two basic
categories: the first is "inshore" which represents data pertaining to all
lobster activity taking place within 69 degrees West Longitude and 41 degrees
North Latitude; the "offshore" category refers to all data outside those
coordinates (Area 13 on Figure 5). This is not to be confused with the offshore
license category which allows fishermen to harvest lobster outside the
territorial waters line (3 miles from shore) only, a line that falls within the
coordinates given above. Below is a brief definition of each license type:

Coastal Commercial: Allows the holder to harvest lobsters anywhere, most
importantly inside territorial waters.

Offshore Commercial: Allows the holder to harvest lobsters outside territorial
waters only.

Seasonal Commercial: Allows the holder, if he or she is a student to harvest
lobsters anywhere but with a maximum of 25 traps and only during the months
June - September.

Non-commercial: Allows the holder to harvest anywhere but with a maximum of
only 10 traps and cannot sell catch.

Tables presenting number of fishermen, number of pots fished, number and
value of boats used in the fishery and total landings statewide, by county and
license type, and for each city and town were prepared using the catch reports
submitted by commercial fishermen. In keeping with Division policy, some of the
data are 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. Up until two years ago, this
information was broken down and presented in one table per county. This year all
counties are combined in one table and include selected data elements. For
example, Table 3 contains number of fishermen, pounds harvested and value of
harvest for all counties both inshore and off. Although it requires a reduced
format, it is felt this is more readable.

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
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.

Where tables refer to county, the reader is referred to Figure 9. Fishing
areas are delineated in Figure 5.

1987 HIGHLIGHTS

1. There were 14,852 lobster licenses of all types issued during 1987:

1,877 coastal commercial; 764 offshore commercial; 131 seasonal commercial and
12,080 non-commercial. As of June 14, 1988, a total of 245 licensed commercial
lobstermen (9 percent) failed to file a catch report with the Division. Of the
2,527 commercial fishermen who reported, 737 or 27 percent claimed they did not
fish for lobster during 1987. See Table 1 for a summary of the reporting status
and Table 2 for a five year comparison.

2. A total of 13,384,566 pounds of lobsters were reported landed by
commercial lobstermen. Based on a value of $3.03 per pound , the commercial
catch was valued at $40,555,235. See Table 3 for a breakdown by license type and
county.

3. In total pounds of lobsters landed, Essex County ranked first, Plymouth
County second and Suffolk County third. In total numbers of active commercial
fishermen, Essex County ranked first with 732, Plymouth County second with 404
and Barnstable County third with 189. See Tables 3 and 6.

2 • •

4. In the commercial fishery, pots were valued at $14,929,200 , diving gear

at $39,265, and power and non-power boats at $48,202,483 yielding a total gear
value of $63,170,948. Combined with the value of lobsters sold, $40,555,235,
gives a total fishery value of $103,726,183.

5. Of the 13,384,566 pounds of lobsters landed commercially, 11,510,379
were reported taken inside of 69 degrees West and 41 degrees North (inshore), and
of that number, 9,371,224 pounds were estimated to have been taken within the
territorial waters of the Commonwealth.

6. Boston ranked first in number of pounds landed but second in number of
active fishermen. Gloucester ranked first in number of fishermen but second in
pounds landed. See Table 6 for a breakdown by town.

7. Inshore landings by commercial fishermen were concentrated during the
months July through November when 82 percent of the yearly harvest was landed.
This seasonal trend reflects mainly the efforts of coastal lobstermen who
reported landing approximately 79 percent of the total commercial catch during
that time period. See Figures 1 and 2 and Table 8 for a complete breakdown by
month for each license type.

8. According to coastal lobstermen the greatest harvest of lobsters taken
inside 69 degrees West and 41 degrees North was from the Boston Harbor area (Area
4) followed by the Beverly - Salem - Marblehead area (Area 3) and the Plymouth
area (Area 5). See Figures 3 and 4 and Table 9 for a complete breakdown by area
for each license type.

9. The average catch per trap haul for coastal lobstermen was 0.6304
pounds. For traps fished one set-over day the average was 0.3546; for those
fished two days 0.5399; for three days 0.5647; and for four days 0.6060. See
Figures 6 and 7 for catch effort information by month and area.

10. Last year the fishermen selected for audit reported landing 1,163,777
pounds of lobster on their 1986 catch reports. The audit of their actual records
showed total landings of 1,141,762 pounds, a difference of 22,015 pounds or 1.89
percent. Random audit of the 1987 reports was taking place at time of
publication.

Ex-vessel price determined by weighted averages of prices listed in the
National Marine Fisheries Service "Blue Sheet."

2
Based on an average value of $32.50 per pot, including warp and buoys.

Table 1. 1987 Massachusetts Commercial Lobster Fishery
Reporting Status of Lobster Licensees

Licenses Issued

Coastal Commercial

($200)

1,877

Offshore Commercial

($200)

764

Seasonal (Student) Commercial

($ 50)

131

Non-Commercial

($ 30)

12,080

Total

14,852

Reporting Status

Type

Not

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"Fishing"

34 2%

409

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1,434 76%

154 20%

319

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291 38%

57 44%

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245 9%

737

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1,790 65%

Coastal Commercial
Offshore Commercial
Seasonal Commercial

Total

Non- Commercial figures unavailable at time of printing.

% Not Reporting

Table 2. Massachusetts Commercial Lobster Fishery

Selected Licensing Information, 1983 - 1987

1983

Coastal Licenses
Issued
Percent Change

Fished
Percent Change

Did Not Fish
Percent Change

Not Reporting
Percent Change

1,609

1,312

269

28

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1984

1985

1986

1987

1983-87

1,697

1,744

1,803

1,877

16.66

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2.77

3.38

4.10

1,353

1,368

1,418

1,434

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3.65

1.13

296

349

359

409

52.04

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17.91

2.87

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Percent Change

Fished
Percent Change

Did Not Fish
Percent Change

Not Reporting
Percent Change

560

146

297

120

688

673

711

764

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174

167

294

291

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355

347

270

319

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Seasonal Licenses
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Percent Change

Did Not Fish
Percent Change

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117

227

188

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131

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(Except Seasonal) and Landings by Homeport, Inside and Outside 69°W 41°N

TOWN

NUMBER RANK
FISHERMEN (FISHERMEN)

POUNDS
INSIDE

BARNSTABLE-YARMOUTH

6

BEVERLY

53

BOSTON

129

BOURNE

13

CHATHAM

22

CHILMARK-GAY HEAD

18

COHASSET

47

DANVERS

17

DARTMOUTH

11

DENNIS-BREWSTER

17

DUXBURY

6

ESSEX

8

FAIRHAVEN

34

FALMOUTH

16

FREETOWN-SWANSEA

3

GLOUCESTER

245

GOSNOLD

3

HARWICH

3

H INGHAM

28

HULL

43

IPSWICH

25

KINGSTON

8

LYNN

18

MANCHESTER

39

MARBLEHEAD

62

MARSHFIELD

86

MATTAPOISETT

12

NAHANT

42

NANTUCKET

6

NEW BEDFORD

75

NEWBURYPORT- NEWBURY

19

ORLEANS-EASTHAM

23

PLYMOUTH

118

PROVINCETOWN

37

QUINCY

18

REVERE

8

ROCKPORT

65

ROWLEY

3

SALEM

15

SALISBURY

6

SANDWICH

36

SAUGUS- MED FORD

52

SCITUATE

71

SWAMPSCOTT

40

TISBURY-OAK BLUFFS-

EDGARTOWN

10

TRURO-WELLFLEET

10

WARE HAM -MAR ION

10

WESTPORT-FALL RIVER

39

WEYMOUTH

10

WINTHROP

28

STATEWIDE TOTAL

1,713

OUT OF STATE

12

33
9
2
28
22
24
11
25
30
25
33
32
18
26
34
1
34
34
19
12
20
32
24
15
8
4

29

13

33

5

23

21

3

16

24

32

7

34

27

33

17

10

6

14

31

31
31
15
31
19

212

812

1,373

44

121

125

594

61

25

33

34

12

76

10

1,081
7

35
471
339

39

17
336
239
450
581

64
480

45
220

59
100
593
123

45

131

317

2

67
8
214
501
372
418

14
17
43

263
86

160
11,495

712
871
558
523
499
750
089
142
368
813
127
883
209
639

938
774
632
152
587
260
888
408
904
409
538
483
399
463
577
265
184
728
216
698
749
947
705
807
809
582
586
840
522

012
429
106
720
001
600
097

POUNDS
OUTSIDE

161,279

121,033

20,607
8,833

POUNDS
TOTAL

240
383,365

161,144
74,220

3,715

124
97,037

1,771

155,012

2,326

1,151

395,941
2,824

283,566

1,874,188

373

812

1,494

44

142

134

594

61

25

33

34

12

459

10

1,243

7

109

471

339

39

17
336
239
454
581

64
480

45
317

59
101
748
125

45

131

319

2

67
8
610
501
375
418

14
17
43

547
86

160
13,369

991
871
591
523
106
583
089
142
368
813
367
883
574
639
0
081
774
852
152
587
260
888
408
904
124
538
483
399
587
614
265
955
740
542
698
749
098
705
807
809
523
586
664
522

012
429
106
286
001
600
285

PERCENT
OF TOTAL

2.80
6.08
11.18
0.33
1.06
1.01
4.44
0.46
0.19
0.25
0.26
0.10
3.44
0.08
0.00
9.30
0.06
0.82
3.52
2.54
0.29
0.13
2.52
1.79
3.40
4.35
0.48
3.59
0.34
2.38
0.44
0.76
5.60
0.94
0.34
0.99
2.39
0.02
0.51
0.07
4.57
3.75
2.81
3.13

0.10
0.13
0.32
4.09
0.64
1.20

RANK
(TOTAL LBS.)

16
3
1
36
23
24
6
32
41
40
39
45
12
46
50
2
48
27
11
17
38
42
18
21
13
7
31
10
35
20
33
28
4
26
34
25
19
49
30
47
5
9
15
14

44
43
37
8
29
22

17,656 158,478

10

176,134

Table 7. Massachusetts Commercial Lobster Fishery

Selected Landings (Lbs.) and Effort Statistics, 1983 - 1987

% Change
1987 1983-87

1983

1984

1985

1986

Total Landings

12,136,607

12,259,311

14

,203,083

14

,690,452

13

,384,566

10.28

Percent Change

1.01

15.86

3.43

-8.89

Total Traps Fished

350,567

386,764

404,662

427,819

459,360

31.03

Percent Change

10.33

4.63

5.72

7.37

Inshore Landings
Percent Change

10,356,607 10,088,499 12,399,745 12,918,388 11,510,379
-2.59 22.91 4.18 -10.90

11.14

Fixed Gear Landings
Percent Change

10,198,771 9,869,820 12,199,353 12,580,793 11,243,043
-3.23 23.60 3.13 -10.63

10.24

Inshore Traps Fished
Percent Change

Mobile Gear Landings
Percent Change

334,867

143,582

354,888

375,172

399,808

427,018

5.98

5.72

6.57

6.81

207,993

178,789

306,035

241,986

44.86

-14.04

71.17

-20.93

27.52

68.54

Offshore Landings
Percent Change

1,780,000 2,170,812 1,803,338 1,772,064 1,874,187
21.96 -16.93 -1.73 5.76

5.29

Fixed Gear Landings
Percent Change

1,648,983 2,042,943 1,747,258 1,578,679 1,686,856
23.89 -14.47 -9.65 6.85

2.30

Offshore Traps Fished 15,700
Percent Change

Mobile Gear Landings 131,017
Percent Change

Territorial Landings 8,654,914
Percent Change

Average Value ($) / Pound 2.44
Percent Change

31,876

29,490

28,011

32,342

103.03

-7.49

-5.02

15.46

27,869

56,080

193,385

187,331

-2.40

-56.14

244.84

-3.13

19,727

10,303,792

10,634,231

9,371,224

-7.34

28.48

3.21

-11.88

2.61

2.47

2.51

3.03

6.97

-5.36

1.62

20.60

106.00

42.98

8.28

24.06

Total Value

Percent Change

$29,613,321 $31,996,802 $35,081,615 $36,873,035 $40,515,081
8.05 9.64 5.11 9.88

36.81

Inshore Value
Percent Change

$25,270,121 $26,330,982 $30,627,370 $32,425,154 $34,841,917
4.20 16.32 5.87 7.45

37.88

Ave. Lbs. / Trap-Haul
Percent Change

Ave. Lbs. / Trap
Percent Change

0.582

33.80

0.505

0.649

0.6907

0.6304

13.23

28.51

6.43

-8.73

30.80

34.46

33.10

28.15

-8.86

11.89

-3.97

-14.95

8.32

-16.71

11

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Total Monthly Inshore Harvest by License Type

25 -

20

15

10 -

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COASTAL

g5?%l OFFSHORE

■■ SEASONAL

19.73

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Percent Monthly Inshore Harvest for Each License Type

40

35 -

30

25

20 -

15 -

10 -

5 -

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MONTH

Table 8 . 1 987 Massachusetts Commercial Lobster
Fishery. Percent Monthly Inshore
Harvest for Each License Type

Month Coastal Offshore Seasonal

January

0.80

4.27

February

0 26

2.55

March

0.29

2.14

Apr!

1.00

2.34

May

3.19

4 93

June

5.90

6.58

15

04

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16.70

9.09

39

46

August

17 99

12.26

33

53

September

19.88

16.84

11

97

October

17.73

11.61

November

10.94

16.86

December

5.32

10.53

Total

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Total Inshore Harvest by Area Fished and License Type

35

30 -

25

20

15

10 -

30.00

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16.50

8.76

2.22

i
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3

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10.47

8.92

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4.84

1.58

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Percent Inshore Harvest by Area Fished for Each License Type

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Table 9 . 1987 Massachusetts Commercial Lobster
Fishery; Percent hshore Harvest
by Area Fished for Each License Type

Area Fished Coastal Offshore Seasonal

1

2.29

0.63

5.80

2

9.14

0.41

23.72

3

17.27

0.72

6.69

4

31.45

0.18

19.90

5

10.89

1.44

17.83

6

5.03

0.73

15.41

7

1.65

0.19

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27.36

0.90

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0.00

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0.09

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11

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22.29

1.09

12

6.49

12.66

0.00

Total

100.0 100.0

100.0

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Castle Neck, Ipswich

Goldsmith Point, Manchester

Red Rock, Lynn

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Scussett Beach, Sandwich

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Harwich/Chatham Line

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Fishing Areas in Massachusetts

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Catch Per Unit of Effort For All License Types by Area Fished

0.5

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0.2

o.i

N = Number of Complete Monthly Observations

Average CPUE for All Potmen = .2169

N=149

N=2,395

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N=870

12

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Catch Per Unit of Effort for Both Coastal and All Potmen by Month

0.3

0.2

o.i -

Average CPUE for All Potmen = .2169

+ = Coastal License Potmen
■ = All Potmen

Jan

Feb

Mar Apr

— I 1

May Jun

Month

Jul

Aug

— I —
Sep

— I —
Oct

Nov Dec

15

Figure 8. 1987 Massachusetts Commercial

Lobster Fishery; CPUE by Set-Over Day

for Coastal and All Potmen

CPUE (Pounds/Traps Hauled)

Number Valid Observations

5000

- 4000

- 3000

- 2000

- 1000

I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 -h

Set-Over Day

Coastal Potmen All Potmen

■ CPUE + CPUE

I 1 Number Valid Observations Number Valid Observations

16

Figure 9. Coastal Map of Massachusetts
Showing Statistical Reporting Areas (Counties)

1. Essex

2. Suffolk

3. Norfolk

4. Plymouth

5. Bristol 7. Dukes

6. Barnstable 8. Nantucket

17