Millions of Pounds Figure 1. Annual pink shrimp catch for the West coast of Florida ( ). Year of Recorded Catch 9

Millions of Pounds Figure 2. Annual pink shrimp catch ( ) for the West Coast of Florida illustrating all of the sub-areas. Year of Recorded Landing 10

Millions of Pounds Figure 3. Pink shrimp catch for the Tortugas grounds (sub-areas 1-3) and the West coast of Florida (sub-areas 1-9) for biological years

Figure 4. Size distribution of shrimp landed from the Tortugas grounds 1980 – 2006, expressed as a percentage of the total catch. Proportion of Total Catch Year of Recorded Landing 12

Figure 5. Size distribution of shrimp landed from the Tortugas grounds Millions of Pounds Year of Recorded Landing 13

Catch in Lbs. (x100,000) Figure 6. Average monthly historical catch ( ) compared to recent catch (January 1988-December 2006) landed from the Tortugas grounds. 14

Thousand of Days Fished Figure 7. Pink shrimp fishing effort on the Tortugas grounds (subareas 1-3) and the west coast of Florida (subareas 1-9) for biological years

Pounds per Day Fished Figure 8. Pink shrimp catch per unit effort (CPUE) for the Tortugas grounds subareas 1-3) and the west coast of Florida (subareas 1-9) for biological years

Billions of Shrimp Figure 9. Estimates of pink shrimp recruitment on the Tortugas grounds for biological years Horizontal line illustrates long term mean recruitment. 17

Billions of Recruited Shrimp Figure 10. Estimate of seasonal pink shrimp recruitment on the Tortugas grounds for calendar year

Billions of Recruited Shrimp Figure 11. Relationship of pink shrimp parent stocks (age 5+month shrimp) and recruitment,