date:Apr 16, 2013
year, he averaged 2,000 pounds a day.
We were expecting it to be bad going in, but we werent expecting it to be as bad as it was, he said.
Shrimp provide a small but important fishery for New England fishermen each winter, including some out of Gloucester and Cape Ann. The shrimp fleet last year included 225 boats from Maine, and 31 combined from Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
The new season began Jan. 23 for net fishermen, who were allotted about 1.2 million pounds of the harvest. Fisherme