While many spend summer hours in the often leisurely act of fishing, we look today at fishery production for our market size. The market presented below is the size of the domestic catch in the United States for 2008. This does not include, of course, all those Rock Bass, Walleye, Trout, Bluegill, Pike and Perch being pulled from lakes and streams all over the country by sports fisherman. Rather it is the size of the commercial catch.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2008
Market size: 8,326 million pounds
Source: “Table 889. Fishery Products—Domestic Catch, Imports, and Disposition: 1990 to 2008,” Statistical Abstract of the United States 2011, January 2011, page 566, available online here.
Original source: U.S. Census Bureau