/ OVERNMENT DOCUMENT COLLECTION FEB 4 1986 University of Massachusett Depository Copy TW^ 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 -2- 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. -3- 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 -4- 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. -5- Table I. 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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 -18- 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.