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Article: Despite obstacles, watermen scored a healthy catch in '08.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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By Scott Harper
The Virginian-Pilot
norfolk
Crabs in crisis, climate change, the Chesapeake Bay in peril. Those might be the headlines, but Hampton Roads still ranked as the sixth-richest seafood port in the country last year, according to new federal statistics.
Commercial fishermen reported landing $72.3 million worth of fish and shellfish at local docks, up from $71.2 million in 2007 and $51 million in 2006, when Hampton Roads was No. 10 on the national money list.
On top of the roster again last year was New Bedford, Mass., which reported catches worth $241 million. Two ports in Alaska finished second and third, followed ...