ANALYSIS: May and Year-to-Date Gulf Shrimp Landings Surge
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Urner Barry] Jim Kenny - June 26, 2017
The National Marine Fisheries Service is reporting May 2017 landings (all species, headless) of 14.59 million lbs. compared to 10.27 million in May 2016. The cumulative total now stands at 30.25 million lbs.; 6.7 million pounds or 28.43 percent above the Jan-May 2016 total of 23.56 million lbs. This is the largest five-month total in any of the years since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. However, anecdotally market participants suggest that the bulk of the ...
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