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Maine’s blueberry harvestfor 2014 surpassed 100 millionpounds for the second-biggestharvest on record. UMaineblueberry specialist Dave Yar-
borough reported that cool, wet weather is bestfor a blueberry crop, and that’s what we hadlast summer. Pollination was another factor,noting that 75,000 beehives were brought toMaine to assist. Yarborough says the harvestwon’t surpass the record of 110.6 millionpounds in 2000. He says the final tally basedon estimates was a harvest of 105 million to110 million pounds.
Maine potato farmers andfood processors benefitedfrom a trend in which fami-lies in other nations areadopting the American habitsof eating out in restaurantsmore often and eating more
prepared foods at home, said Gordon Pow,senior vice president at Penobscot McCrum,which grows potatoes on 5,000 acres in Aroos-took County and operates a processing facilityin Belfast. The company is a major supplier ofpotato skins, potato wedges and twice-bakedpotatoes. The family-owned company, whichemploys 250 people, exports between 10 per-cent and 12 percent of its total sales, and mostof its exports go to restaurants in Europe and
Russia, he said.
Seafood also repre-sents a big chunk ofMaine’s export
growth. Live lobster exports between 2007 and2013 increased 67 percent, from $145 millionto $242 million, with exports to Asia drivingmuch of that growth. From 2007 through2013, lobster exports increased 67 percentdespite the great recession of 2008-2010. Forthe third year in a row and only the third timeever, Maine lobstermen landed more than 120million pounds with a record overall value of$456,935,346, an all time high, reported onFebruary 26 by the state Department of Ma-rine Resources. Maine’s fisheries were worth$585.3 million last year. At $3.69 per pound,the 123,676,100 pounds landed represented animprovement of 79 cents per pound over 2013,the largest one-year increase in overall valuewas also the largest on record and at$86,653,573, was more than the total value ofthe fishery 21 years previously. The 20072013 change from $145 million to $242 mil-
lion grew with Canada as the largest buyernext to the Far East purchases that were againfollowed by re-processed Maine lobster value-added-products shipped from Canada to Asiastraight off Maine trucks after purchase andprocessing. Changes noted in the lobster in-dustry are more Nova Scotia fishermen fishingin or near Maine waters and the push from theMaine Lobstermen’s Association to move to-wards better shipping and handling of largerlobsters so that long distance markets are bet-ter developed directly from Maine shippers.
Elvers, which sold for prices topping out at$1,800 a pound in 2011 and in 2012 saw ex-ports increasefrom just over $1million to $14.6million from 2007 to 2013.The baby eels are sold to buyers in So.Korea and Hong Kong. All fishermen, no mat-ter if part of the Indian tribes holding permits,will face a reduction in individual quotas forthe 2015 season as result of a fall decisionmade by the Atlantic States Marine FisheriesCommission. This year licensed fishermen canuse assistants while fishing and dealers mustelectronically document transactions withinthe season starting March 22.
Soft shelled clams or ‘steamer clams’ supportsabout 1700 licensed harvesters in the state, andaccounts for about $19.2 million in landedvalue. Clammers harvested about 11.2 mil-lion pounds in 2013 at about $1.58 per pound.In 2000, the harvest was worth about $9.5million or about 85 cents per pound.
In 2013, Maine wormers harvestedabout 469,000 pounds valued at some$5.6 million, or $11.94 per pound.Worms are sold to fishermen for bait
and commercially by nurseries or aquaticstores in both live, frozen and freeze driedform as a food for aquarium fish and frogs.They are commonly sold in tackle shops asbait for saltwater recreational fishing. Theindustry also harvested an additional 256,000pounds of sand worms worth an additional$1.4 million.
Maine’s scallop fishery also saw another yearof increased landings and value as it continuesto rebuild from an all-time low of 33,000
pounds landed in 2005. Maine’s 438 activelicensed draggers and divers landed an addi-tional 78,335 meat pounds (without the shell)over 2013 for a total of 584,173 pounds. At$7,464,690, the value of the fishery increasedby more than $1.8 million.
There are three million chickens in Maine.You go to the store, the eggs you take from theshelf, were probably laid here in Maine.Maine railroads bring in a lot of cars of cornand soy” from the Midwest to the feed facilityin Leeds for Land O' Lakes (formerly De-coster). How this translates to infrastructure,dollars for transport, groceries and farming isdifficult to measure but everyone knows theprice of eggs has doubled in recent years andthat makes Maine egg farming a notable agri-culture worth millions once again.
Atlantic herring, valued at $16,352,084 wasthe third most valuable fishery in 2014 forMaine. Not counted is the amount that be-comes bait for lobster fishing.
There hasn’t been any fishery for Gulf ofMaine shrimp for two years as officials havebanned the dragging season for some 120 reg-istered boats, due to shrimp predation and aloss of shrimp fodder phytoplankton. A newnorthern shrimp fishery management plan is inthe making and comments can be submittedvia mail to Mike Waine, Atlantic States Ma-rine Fisheries Commission, 1005 No HighlandSt., Suite 200A-N, Arlington, VA 22201 or byemailing: [email protected] with a sub-ject line “Northern Shrimp Amendment 3.” While cod and shrimp landings have almostcollapsed, support for strict conservation camewith voters approving a $7 million bond issueto fund infrastructure research, fishing andbusiness collaborative's to develop the wholeseafood sector with the Maine Department ofMarine Resources teaming up with the MaineTechnology Institute designing a process formaking awards to innovators in this sector.
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