Massachusetts lobster fishery statistics

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OVERNMENT DOCUMENT
COLLECTION

FEB 4 1986

University of Massachusett
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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

Reporting Status

Not

Reported

Reported

Type

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"Not Fishing"

"Fishing"

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)

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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

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2,943

131

J 37

18,954

107

J 52

2,569

460

,81 1

1,690

55

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14

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40

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39

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13

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3!

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233,800

325

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466

32

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56,844

9! 1

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13

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29,85!

210,

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287

,676

148

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52

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19;

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5,032

201;

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244;

,786

371

552;

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4;

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518;

583

2,033

46;

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5,178

310;

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13,709

42;

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136,271

262;

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56;

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55;

633

144,680

791;

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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.

-19-

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

-20-

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.

13

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