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FISHING VESSEL SAFETY: Blueprint for a National Program
TABLE 2-1 Documented Self-Propelled Vessels Under 5,000 Gross Tons with a Fisheries Endorsement but not a Passenger or Offshore Supply Vessel on March 31, 1990
Coast Guard Documentation Port
Number of Vessels
Atlantic Coast
Boston, Massachusetts
3,255
New York, New York
950
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
715
Hampton Roads, Virginia
3,668
Miami, Florida
3,467
Great Lakes
Cleveland, Ohio
155
Gulf Coast
New Orleans, Louisiana
3,264
St. Louis, Missouri
55
Houston, Texas
2,224
West Coast
Long Beach, California
974
San Francisco, California
1,945
Portland, Oregon
1,522
Seattle, Washington
2,835
Alaska
Juneau, Alaska
4,335
Hawaii/Southwest Pacific
Honolulu, Hawaii
305
Total
29,669
SOURCE: Data recorded in U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety InformationSystem by Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, D.C., on March 31,1990.
or state permits to process (e.g., freeze or can) fish. Of these, about 210 have both harvesting and processing capabilities. A documented vessel's actual use in the fishing industry is not monitored by Coast Guard automated information systems or data bases.
In 1987, the latest year for which broad-based industry data are available regionally, it is estimated that about 31,000 federally documented fishing industry vessels and 80,000 smaller craft were registered with the coastal states (with the Coast Guard in Alaska) and bearing state numbers (Table 2-2). These
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