Squid and Spiny lobster and were king in 2014 California Fisheries

AR-160529648.jpg&maxh=400&maxw=667While California’s seafood sales overwhelmingly relied on imported animals, commercial fisheries landed nearly 360 million pounds of fin- and shellfish in 2014, according to a federal report released Thursday with the most recent figures on the nation’s fishing economy. The state’s seafood industry, including imports, generated a whopping $23 billion — more than 10 percent of the nation’s $214 billion total sales in 2014 from commercial harvest, seafood processors and dealers, wholesalers and distributors, and importers and retailers. As such, most of California’s nearly 144,000 industry jobs came from the import and retail sectors,,, Read the story here 15:20

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