October 31, 2017 — October is National Seafood Month, and there’s no better place than Alabama to enjoy fresh Gulf seafood. Whether you prefer red snapper, shrimp, flounder, oysters or blue crab, you can find it all here in the Heart of Dixie.
We are a state with abundant natural resources both on land and at sea. Millions of seafood consumers from our state and across the country depend on the hard working commercial fishermen and women of Alabama supply them with some of the best seafood the country has to offer.
Between 2010 and 2014, Alabama experienced a seafood revolution. In 2010, the Alabama Gulf Seafood harvest was 14 million pounds. Just four years later, in 2014, this number rose to 30 million pounds. Over this same time period, the number of jobs related to Alabama’s commercial fishing industry increased by over 140 percent – from approximately 6,200 to over 15,000 jobs. As a result, Alabama’s seafood industry saw its economic impact more than double during these years from just over $300 million in 2010 to $660 million in 2014. When it comes to seafood, Alabama is doing it right.