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Fishery Facts
Fishery Facts
The Port of Honolulu consistently ranks among the top commercial fishing ports in the nation, landing 29 million pounds (23rd) valued at $90 million (9th) in 2019. During the same year, recreational fishermen harvested more than 2.1 million pounds of mahimahi in the U.S. Pacific Islands. Find out more in two annual reports recently released by NOAA:
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2020 Status of Stocks
—provides information about U.S. fisheries through Dec. 31, 2020, including stocks that are on the overfishing and overfished lists. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/ sustainable-fisheries/status-stocks-2020
2019 Fisheries of the United States
— details fisheries statistics for the nation with data on commercial landings and value, recreational catch, the fish processing industry, aquaculture production, imports and exports and per capita seafood consumption. www. fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/document/ fisheries-united-states-2019-report
