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US commerical fish and shellfish harvests - 2005
Contribution of Alaska pollock and Pacific whiting to US commerical fisheries landings
Alaska pollock
35% of US commerical fisheries landings,
by weight
1 547 010 metric tons
Pacific whiting
6% of US commerical fisheries landings,
by weight
257 156 metric tons
All other US commerical fisheries landings
59%
2 663 007 metric tons
Source: NMFS,
Fisheries of the United States, 2005
Figure 13.1
Pollock as a percentage of US fishery landings.
Major world whitefish landings, 2006
1800
1565
1600
1400
1285
1200
1000
806
800
600
537
464
365
355
400
332
298
285
200
0
US Alaska
pollock
Non-US
pollock
Atlantic
cod
South
American
hakes
Saithe
Pacific
cod
Pacific
whiting
Haddock
Hoki
Cape
hakes
Figure 13.2
The whitefish landings from the world's major fisheries in 2006.
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