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Shrimp Fishery - Pacific Region
Overview of the Fishery
There are seven Pandalid species harvested by
trawl in BC and fisheries vary in complexity from single to
multi-species fisheries for a variety of markets including machine-peeled,
hand-peeled, frozen-at-sea, fresh and live shrimp. The majority
of landings are a mix of "pink shrimp" and sidestripe
shrimp. Pink and sidestripe
shrimp do not easily enter baited traps, but humpback and coonstripe
shrimp are caught commercially by both trawl and trap.
The Pacific Region shrimp trawl fishery takes place all along
the British Columbia coastline in a number of protected inshore
areas and large offshore grounds on soft bottoms of mud or sand
in depths of 100 to 150 metres (average). The fishery is managed
by individual Shrimp Management Areas (SMA). A vessel-based
("S") licence or communal commercial ("FP")
licence is required to participate in the commercial shrimp
by trawl fishery.
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