Commercial Fishing


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New Bedford, Massachusetts is among the top US ports in terms of volume and dollar value of seafood. The port was #1 in value for landings with $281.2 million for 2006.

Visitors to New Bedford will find some of the nation's finest seafood, including American lobster, cold water shrimp, scallops, clams, oysters, cod, haddock, pollock, flounder, monkfish, swordfish and other seafood.