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Released March 1, 2006

NEW YORK TROUT SALES INCREASE

New York trout producers sold a total of 132,000 pounds of trout valued at $507,000 during the 12 months ending December 31, 2005. This production, which includes food-size fish, stockers, and fingerlings, was up 4 percent from a year ago.

The 2005 output included 83,000 pounds of food-size trout averaging $3.03 per pound in value, 46,000 pounds of stocker trout averaging $4.49 per pound, and 3,000 pounds of fingerlings averaging $445.00 per 1,000 fish.

Food-size fish averaged 1.0 pounds in weight, while stockers averaged .40 pounds. Total weight of food-size trout sold was down 5 percent from 2004. Total weight of stocker trout was up 21 percent.

TROUT:  Sales by Number, Liveweight, and Value,
2004 and 2005

Item	Unit	New York		Pennsylvania		United States
		2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
Foodsize Trout Sold
Number of head	(000)	90	80	1,160	1,290	49,591	55,501
Liveweight pounds	(000)	87	83	1,150	1,320	57,636	59,672
Total dollar value	(000)	262	251	3,335	3,960	59,397	62,554
Avg. wt./fish	lb.	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.1
Avg. price/lb.	$	3.01	3.03	2.90	3.00	1.03	1.05
Stocker Trout Sold
Number of head	(000)	105	115	450	490	5,518	4,785
Liveweight pounds	(000)	38	46	216	190	2,179	1,836
Total dollar value	(000)	179	207	821	760	5,852	5,180
Avg. wt./fish	lb.	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4
Avg. price/lb.	$	4.705	4.49	3.80	4.00	2.69	2.82
Fingerling Trout Sold
Number of head	(000)	110	110	190	290	5,550	7,059
Liveweight pounds	(000)	3	3	5	5	113	168
Total dollar value	(000)	37	49	67	87	966	1,320
Total Trout Sold
Number of head	(000)	305	305	1,800	2,070	60,659	67,345
Liveweight pounds	(000)	128	132	1,371	1,515	59,928	61,676
Total dollar value	(000)	478	507	4,223	4,807	66,215	69,054
Avg. wt./fish	lb.	0.42	0.43	0.76	0.73	0.99	0.92
Avg. price/lb.	$	3.73	3.84	3.08	3.17	1.10	1.12
Number of producers 1/		37	36	58	57	592	601

Approximately 3 percent of New York’s food-size trout went to restaurants and other retailers. People engaged in fee fishing or recreational establishments accounted for 51 percent, while 39 percent was bought directly by consumers. Fee fishing and recreational establishments took 65 percent of the stocker trout sold during 2005, while other sales took 26 percent.

Pennsylvania trout sales for 2005 amounted to 1.515 million pounds, up 11 percent from 2004. Food-size trout sales of 1.32 million pounds were up 15 percent from last year, while stocker sales, at 190,000 pounds decreased 12 percent.   Food-size trout in the Keystone State averaged $3.00 per pound, while stockers averaged $4.00 per pound.

Trout growers in the United States sold a total of 61.7 million pounds of trout valued at $69.1 million during 2005, compared with 59.9 million pounds of trout valued at $66.2 million a year earlier. Food-size fish accounted for 97 percent of the total pounds sold, with an average live weight of 1.10 pounds and an average value of $1.05 per pound. Stocker trout averaged .40 pounds live weight, with an average value of $2.82 per pound. U.S. growers sold 67 percent of their food-size trout to processors, while fee fishing and recreational establishments took 51 percent of the stocker trout.

TROUT:  Foodsize and Stocker Sales by Outlet, Percent of Total Sold,

2004 and 2005

Sales Outlet	Foodsize				Stocker
	New York		United States		New York		United States
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
	Percent				Percent
Live Haulers	*	*	2.3	5.5	*	*	6.7	4.7
Fee & Recreation	48	51	17.4	18.9	41	65	49.9	51.3
Other Producers	*	*	1.8	1	*	*	11.4	6.4
Government Agencies	*	*	1.5	1	*	*	15.7	19.8
Direct to Consumers	16	39	2.1	3.7	18	26	10.5	8
Processors	*	*	73.4	66.5	*	*	1.7	2.3
Restaurant or Retailers	3	3	1.4	2.4	*	*	0.5	1.9
Other	8	*	0.1	1	36	*	3.6	5.6

   TROUT:  Losses by Cause, Total Number Lost and Percent of Total,
  2004 and 2005

Cause of Loss	New York				United States
	No. Lost (000)	Percent of Total	No. Lost (000)	Percent of Total	No. Lost (000)	Percent of Total	No. Lost (000)	Percent of Total
	2004		2005		2004		2005
Disease	15	14	5	23	15,942	72.8	16,359	50.9
Theft/Vandalism	*	*	*	*	86	0.4	26	0.1
Chemical Contamination	*	*	*	*	9	*	4	*
Drought	*	*	*	*	324	1.5	6,188	19.3
Flood	*	*	*	*	2,646	12.1	256	0.8
Predators	28	27	11	50	2,167	9.9	2,674	8.3
Other	*	*	*	*	718	3.3	6,618	20.6
*  Less than one percent or not disclosed.

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