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Page 12. MAINE COASTAL NEWS April 2013


Commercial Fishing News MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL FISHING NEWS


Continued from Page 11.


Saltwater recreational fi shing generated its highest economic effect in sales impacts and jobs in West Florida ($4.9 billion sales, 47,000 jobs) East Florida ($3.3 billion sales, 29,000 jobs); Louisiana ($2 billion sales,


18,000 jobs); North Carolina ($2 billion sales, 18,000 jobs); Texas ($1.9 billion sales, 15,000 jobs); and New Jersey (1.7 billion sales, 10,000 jobs).


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CANADIAN FISHING NEWS


Provincial and Territorial Statistics on Canada’s Fish and Seafood Exports in 2012


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Fish and seafood are among the largest single food commodities exported by Can- ada. In 2012, Canada exported $4.1 billion of fi sh and seafood products, an increase of $41 million from 2011. Approximately 85 percent of all fi sh landed by Canadian harvesters are exported to foreign markets. International trade fi gures show that 62 percent of Canadian fi sh and seafood exports were destined for the United States at a value of $2.6 billion. The People’s Republic of China and the European Union were im- portant export markets in 2012, accounting for $439 million and $343 million worth of exports respectively. These two markets accounted for 19 percent of total Canadian


fi sh and seafood exports worldwide. Canada’s largest exports by species


were lobster, snow/queen crab, Atlantic salmon and shrimp. In 2012, these species represented 61 percent of the total value ($2.5 billion) and 48 percent of the total volume (284 tonnes) of fi sh and seafood ex- ports. Lobster remains Canada’s top export species in terms of value, with $1 billion of exports in 2012. Provincially, the largest exporter of fi sh and seafood products was New Brunswick, followed by Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec and Prince Edward Island.


Details about the 2012 provincial and territorial exports of fi sh and seafood prod- ucts are presented below: New Brunswick Canada’s largest exporter of fi sh and seafood, with exports valued at $967.2 mil- lion.


Exported 105,522 tonnes (t) of fi sh and


seafood. Top three exports by value were lobster (22,058 t valued at $475.4 million), farmed Atlantic salmon (35,620 t valued at $210.8 million) and snow/queen crab (8,736 t val- ued at $99.1 million). Nova Scotia Canada’s second largest exporter of fi sh and seafood, with exports valued at $915.4 million.


Exported 111,330 tonnes of fi sh and


seafood. Top three exports by value were lobster (25,924 t valued at $373.5 million), snow/ queen crab (8,945 t valued at $100.7 million) and scallop (4,332 t valued at $98.2 million). British Columbia Canada’s third largest exporter of fi sh and seafood, with exports valued at $871.5 million.


Exported 166,277 tonnes of fi sh and seafood. Continued from Page 5.


the memorabilia that can never be replaced. Wes did not own the land where the shop was so he decided to buy a piece of property of his own. During the winter of 1987 and the spring of 1988 the owner of Friendship Trap, Pike Bartlett, let Wes use a building at his facility until he got his new shop completed. While at Friendship Trap, Wes and his crew, which included his son, young Wes, completed two boats. In August 1988, Wes moved to his pres- ent location. He said “We touched up a 30 foot South Shore, which was the fi rst boat I had here. Then we got busy with two at a time.” Since the new shop was completed


Lash has fi nished off a DMR, a 46 foot Newman, a 40 foot Young Brothers, a 34 foot South Shore, a 35 foot Young Brothers, another 40 foot Young Brothers, plus a lot of repair work all by 1991. He said it does not make any difference whose hull it is he’ll fi nish it off. With the boat building industry in a depressed situation in the early 1990s, Lash turned his attention to repairing and did quite well at it. He said, “We are in a good location for that. There are not too many around here who are willing to do this type of work. The boats that we are repairing are from right in this town, or in the immediate area. If a guy can haul out today and be back over in three or four days and get what he wants done it


Top three exports by value were farmed Atlantic salmon (51,788 t valued at $290.5 million), crab (5,138 t valued at $69 million) and hake (27,454 t valued at $53.4 million). Newfoundland and Labrador Canada’s fourth largest exporter of fi sh and seafood, with exports valued at almost $765.6 million in 2012.


Exported 136,462 tonnes of fi sh and


seafood. Top three exports by value were snow/ queen crab (24,570 t valued at $266.5 million), shrimp (57,700 t valued at $234 million) and Clam (4,973 t valued at $49.7 million). Quebec


Canada’s fi fth largest exporter of fi sh and seafood, with exports valued at $264.3 million in 2012.


Exported 26,517 tonnes of fi sh and


seafood. Top three exports by value were snow/ queen crab (7,438 t valued at $80 million), lobster (4,031 t valued at $79.2 million) and shrimp (1,364 t valued at $15.5 million). Prince Edward Island Canada’s sixth largest exporter of fi sh and seafood, with exports valued at $197.5 million.


Exported 23,429 tonnes of fi sh and


seafood. Top three exports by value were lobster (6,357 t valued at $134 million), mussel (13,735 t valued at $37.3 million) and oyster (760 t valued at $4.7 million). Ontario


Canada’s seventh largest exporter of


fi sh and seafood, with exports valued at $92.6 million.


Exported approximately 15,731 tonnes


of fi sh and seafood. Top three exports by value were pick- erel (1,185 t valued at $12.4 million), perch (1,480 t valued at $12.3 million) and white- fi sh (2,317 t valued at $11.2 million).


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isn’t half bad.” Wes continued doing both new con- struction and repair work. Up until a few years ago when the economy became de- pressed he was busy building a number of new boats with repair work fi t in here and there. Presently they have a number of repair jobs and will be fi nishing off a 42 Wesmac as a lobster boat starting this summer. I gained a lot of knowledge about the area boatbuilders from conversations with Wes. We could have sat for hours talking about builders, designs and boats. I was al- ways amazed at the extent of his knowledge on these subjects. In between the history lessons was the bits of humour so many en- joyed. The most recently being his meeting with OSHA. The fi rst questions was where were the bathrooms to which Wes said out behind that boat. Then he asked the OSHA offi cial where were his and he replied by saying he had just used Home Depot and Wes said that was where his were too. Then the offi cial told him that he needed to have a guard on the drill press to which Wes asked if he needed to put on one the hand drill too since that was more dangerous than the drill press.


Over the years Wes has raced off and on with his lobster boat SEA FLEA in the gasoline classes and did respectably well. He also was the man behind the Friendship Lobster Boat Races and hopefully someone will step up and do them in his honour. I have great memories of my time with


Wes and I now wish I had spent more time and documented more of what he knew.


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