date:Apr 03, 2014
The total US Gulf shrimp harvest for January and February 2014 is the lowest amount ever seen since 2008.
These two months only account for between five and six per cent of the total annual shrimp harvest.
While harvests have been poor, the dockside prices reported by NOAA are historically high. For U15s, NOAA reports a dockside price in the Northern Gulf of $9.25 compared to $6.45 last February, $6.60 in February 2012, $6.25 in February 2011, $4.50 in February 2010 and 2009, and $6.60 in Febr