With roughly 100 fishing vessels in the Oregon trawl fleet, our fishermen participate in the groundfish trawl, Oregon pink shrimp, and Pacific whiting fisheries, delivering their catch to shore-based processors, located along the Oregon coast.

Oregon's trawl fishing and seafood industry produces large amounts of healthy sustainable wild-caught seafood products, including Pacific whiting, Oregon pink shrimp, rockfish, sablefish, Dover sole, Petrale sole, among others. Collectively, Oregon's trawl fishermen land a quarter of a billion pounds of sustainable catch across Oregon's seafood processors’ docks each year. Across all three fisheries, our fishermen generate around $60 million in an annual economic value on average to fishing families alone. 

A robust fishing and processing infrastructure is essential for the Oregon's trawl fishing sector to thrive. As a high-volume industry, our fisheries support the year-round fishing infrastructure, including ice houses, gear shops, boat yards, etc. We also support the year-round processing capability in Oregon. This is essential for all other local fisheries.

Our fishermen sell their fresh catch directly to Oregon's shore-based seafood processors, located in the ports of Astoria, Newport, Coos Bay, and Brookings.

Our fleet is made up of locally-owned small independent businesses. Many trawl fishermen also come from multi-generational fishing families.