Aquaculture Statistics

United States Department of Agriculture

The National Agricultural Statistics Service prepares and publishes reports, via the Economic and Statistics System , monthly surveys of catfish processors' round weight processed, end-of-the-month inventories, prices paid to catfish producers, and prices received by processors by methods of sales. The 15 major catfish-producing States collect producer inventory and sales data. The four largest catfish-producing States (Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi) collect data quarterly while the other 11 States collect data twice annually. Trout producer sales and losses data are collected and published for the 18 major producing States. Survey results are published each year in September. Current information can be accessed via a search engine on this web page.

The Economic Research Service (ERS) provides economic and other social science information and analysis for improving the performance of agricultural and rural America. ERS produces such information as a service to the general public and to help Congress and the administration develop, administer, and evaluate agricultural and rural policies and programs. The "Aquaculture Situation and Outlook Report" is part of a series of reports that analyze the production and demand for agricultural commodities, food and fiber products, and production resources. The "Aquaculture Situation and Outlook Report" provides information on the supply, demand, pricing, and trade for aquacultural and related products. Information is also provided on regulatory and public policy issues.

• Aquaculture Outlook Examines the U.S. aquaculture industry: production, inventory, sales, prices, inputs, and trade of catfish, trout, tilapia, salmon, mollusks, crawfish, shrimp, ornamental fish and new species.
• Catfish Processing This dataset contains current and historical data in the Lotus 1-2-3 format from the monthly Catfish releases by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Information includes farm raised catfish, including round weight purchased, prices paid, inventory, quantity sold, price, and imports. Tables begin as early as January 1970.
• Catfish Processing This monthly full-text file contains the most current information on farm-raised catfish, including round weight purchased, prices paid, inventory, quantity sold, price, imports and exports. This report is supplemented by "Catfish Production."
• Catfish Production This full-text report, issued four times yearly, contains the grower inventory numbers by size groups for selected states; includes number of operations and water acres. This report is a supplement to "Catfish processing: Report".
• Trout Production This full-text annual report contains the number of trout operations, grower sales, and fish losses for selected states; includes number, weight, and value produced by type (foodsize, stocker, fingerlings), number and value of egg sales by region, percent sold by outlet type, and number, pounds and percent by cause of trout lost.

United States Department of Commerce

Much of the statistical, economic, and demographic information collected by the Federal Government is made available to the public through the bureaus and offices of the Department of Commerce that are known collectively as the . Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA).

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