Finishing with Shrimp Boats: A Summary of Georgia's Cooperative Finfish Development and Fishing Demonstration Project for 1983

摘要

Five shrimp boats were involved in a cooperative program to determine the feasibility of shrimp boats diversifying into offshore finfishing in the Georgia Bight. Three vessels were modified for bottom longlining. They produced 32,578 pounds of snowy grouper, grey tilefish, and golden tilefish which had an exvessel value of $38,547. The two vessels that were fish trawling produced a gross stock of 26,413 pounds of fish, predominatly red snapper, scamp, gag grouper, vermillion snapper, red or pink porgy, and whitebone porgy which had an ex-vessel value of $28,562. This represents a combined effort of 28 fishing days and 108 tows, averaging 245 pounds of fish per tow.