Vol. 7, Issue 5 - Commercial Striped Mullet Fishing
Commercial Striped Mullet Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico States
Posadas, B.C. Mississippi MarketMaker Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 5, Mar. 7, 2017.
Striped Mullet Commercial Landings
According to Gulf FINFO (http://gulffishinfo.org/), striped mullet (Fig. 1), which are also known as popeye mullet, black mullet, or gray mullet, are wild-caught in fresh and salt waters mostly from West Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana. More than 100 mullet species are found worldwide (http://www.seafoodsource.com/).
Fig. 2 shows the commercial landings of striped mullet harvested from the Gulf of Mexico Region since 2000. The commercial landings databases were compiled from the NOAA Fisheries website. On average, about 12.7 million pounds were landed each year since 2011. The Gulf States supplied 81 percent of the striped mullet in the United States valued at $9.8 million per year during the last five years.
Striped Mullet Businesses Registered in MarketMaker
In 2015, the Gulf-wide landings of commercial striped mullet fishing reached about 10.6 million pounds. The fish species was caught year-round with almost two-thirds of the landings reported
from November to January (Fig. 3).
There are 37 fishing businesses and seafood and fish markets registered in MarketMaker which harvest, process, and sell striped mullet. Click this LINK to view the search results online. Since May 2014, more than 36,000 web users visited the Mississippi MarketMaker website (Fig. 4). These web users visited more than 76,000 webpages and stayed about 86 seconds per visit.
Economic Contribution of Striped Mullet Commercial Fishing
The economic contribution of commercial fishing to the Gulf of Mexico regional economy was estimated using IMPLAN (http://implan.com/) software and the 2013 input-output data for the five Gulf States. Sector 17 or commercial fishing of the 2013 IMPLAN input-output data was used in the economic analysis. The total commercial landing values of this saltwater fish species in the Gulf of Mexico Region in 2015 reached $7.3 million. The total economic contribution of commercial fishing in 2015 amounted to $14.3 million (Fig. 5). Commercial fishing created 196 jobs and generated labor income amounting to $5.2 million in the Gulf regional economy.
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Economic contribution of commercial striped mullet fishing in the Gulf States in 2015 |
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| Impact Type | Employment (Jobs) | Labor Income ($M) | Total Value Added ($M) | Ouput ($M) |
| Direct Effect | 159.5 |
3.2 |
3.9 | 7.5 |
| Indirect Effect | 11.8 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 3.3 |
| Induced Effect | 24.4 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 3.5 |
| Total Effect | 195.7 | 5.2 | 7.6 | 14.3 |
| Fig 5. Total economic impact includes direct, indirect and induced effects estimated by using 2015 annual landing values and 2013 IMPLAN data. Local purchases percentage was set to 100%. | ||||
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