This report describes fishing communities on the West Coast of the United States and is intended to provide baseline community information for communities engaged in Council managed fisheries, and other state-managed fisheries in Washington, Oregon and California.

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Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) completed a survey generating cost and earnings information for the year 2000 from the West coast charter and head boat fleet.

A PowerPoint presentation with summary charts for revenue, species landed and gear combinations. Interesting Venn Diagrams display gear combinations a single vessel may use during the year. The data is for Washington, Oregon, California and all groundfish species except off-shore whiting.

Presents average expense and economic information from the 1997-1998 cost and earnings survey of the West Coast  limited entry trawl fleet in an aggregated summary.

The fishing fleet making landings at ports in the states of Washington, Oregon, and California has changed dramatically in recent years due to changes in fish resource levels, fishery management plan amendments, and market forces. Vessels have had to switch to other than their primary fisheries, and many times several different fisheries, to sustain revenue levels. Many vessel owners have simply elected to quit commercial fishing. This project is to describe the trends and characteristics of the U.S. West Coast fishing fleet and processors to show how numbers, revenues, and participation in fisheries has changed. A special analysis was completed to find descriptive vessel and processor categories. The classification scheme used 1997 landing data to determine the vessel and processor categories.