2025 Northern Shrimp Pilot Winter Sampling Program Report

In the absence of a commercial fishery, five trawlers and four trappers participated in a six-week pilot winter sampling program to collect northern shrimp samples in the Gulf of Maine during February – March 2025 under a research set-aside quota of 26.5 mt (or approximately 58,400 pounds). In total, the nine participants caught 70 individual…