. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. October 1954 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. An extensive new fishing area for brown-grooved shrimp revealed by these explorations was immediately utilized by the shrimp fish- ing fleet. An extensive fishing area for deep-water red shrimp has also been dis- covered, but this species of shrimp has not been fished commercially as yet. Explorations for brown-grooved shrimp by the exploratory fishing ves- sel Oregon through 1953 have been suf- ficiently comprehensive to define all of the major areas of possible prod
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. October 1954 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. An extensive new fishing area for brown-grooved shrimp revealed by these explorations was immediately utilized by the shrimp fish- ing fleet. An extensive fishing area for deep-water red shrimp has also been dis- covered, but this species of shrimp has not been fished commercially as yet. Explorations for brown-grooved shrimp by the exploratory fishing ves- sel Oregon through 1953 have been suf- ficiently comprehensive to define all of the major areas of possible production along the Gulf Coast of the United States and to point out that the only presently unworked area of importance is the 35- to 50-fathom depth range on the coasts of Louisiana and Texas between the 91st and 95th meridians. Fig. 3 - Shrimp trawl reaching the surface after nighttime ^â â ^s. Explorations for pink-grooved shrimp have produced good catches on, or quite near, the major pink-shrimp fishing grounds off Dry Tortugas, Florida, and Campeche, Mexico, but in no other areas. The eastern Campeche Bank and most of the grounds off Florida west coast, believed to offer possibilities for production of pink-grooved shrimp, have bad trawling-bot- tom areas and extensive trawling operations require development of new gear or Red shrimp, a type of shrimp not yet fished commercially, was found in 150 to 375 fathoms between Dry Tortugas and Aransas Pass. Catches show production possibilities if improvements in the methods of handling shrimp trawls in deep water can be worked out. No evidence of stocks of white shrimp other than those now known to the shrimp fish- ery were found by the Oregon. BACKGROUND Shrimp production in the Gulf of Mexico reached nearly 152 million pounds (heads on) in 1950. From 1950 through 1953 landings were steady or slightly higher, but there were some substantial declines and sharp increases in certain parts of the Gulf. In 1950 the Dry Tort
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