Petersburg Pilot -

Petersburg pulled in 123 million pounds of fish in 2013, making it the 17th top U.S. port for commercial fishery landings last year, according to the annual NOAA fisheries report.

A record-breaking salmon year, 2013 landings were more than double those of 2012 when fishermen brought in 52 million pounds of fish. This reflected a national trend: “The report shows that while national total of fish and shellfish landings remained about the same, total landings of wild salmon topped one billion pounds setting a new record, up 68 percent from 2012,” according to NOAA.

The value of the fish landings...