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The National Fisheries Institute's Global Seafood Marketing Conference 2024 will be underway in Orlando, Florida from 21 to 25 January, and SeafoodSource editors are there to bring you all the latest news on the scene. Check back on this page periodically for all your GSMC 2024 updates.

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February 8, 2024

U.S. foodservice outlets sold more shrimp year over year in 2023, due in part to lower prices, and more outlets included shrimp on their menus, improving the products' countrywide menu penetration.

However, customers bought less average volume per visit, and foodservice businesses used an average of 20 pounds less volume per establishment, according to Performance Food Group Vice President of Procurement Michael Seidel.

Foodservice outlets have

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February 5, 2024

Catfish, lobster, haddock, pollock, and crab each have regional strongholds in the U.S. But a few species have broken through to national popularity, with shrimp, salmon, and cod leading the charge. 

Shrimp was ranked the most popular species of seafood in every region of the U.S. for 2023. Salmon also made an appearance in the top five seafood species in all nine regions of the U.S., as identified by a Circana SupplyTrack survey done

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February 2, 2024

After a rough year for U.S. shrimp importers, the outlook for the first half of 2024 continues to be relatively grim. 

A panel of executives speaking at the 2024 Global Seafood Marketing Conference – which took place from 23 to 25 January in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. – said the first half of 2024 will likely see a contraction across the seafood industry, particularly with shrimp imports, in the wake of a difficult

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Published on
January 31, 2024

China and Indonesia are leading a charge that will see global tilapia production rise to over 7 million metric tons in 2024.

If the prediction from Rabobank and the Global Seafood Alliance holds true, it would be the equivalent of 5 percent year-over-year growth, and a 13 percent increase from 2019.

“Overall, the growth of tilapia has been pretty consistent with year-over-year increases, averaging about 5.4 percent each year,” Urner

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January 30, 2024

Seafood sales at U.S. retail stores dipped in 2023 due to high levels of inflation, tighter purchasing power for consumers, and a number of other factors.

After two years of higher sales and retailers effectively moving through built-up inventory, demand for seafood fell in 2023, leaving the entire supply chain scrambling to find solutions, H-E-B Vice President of Seafood Jason Driskill told SeafoodSource at the 2024 Global Seafood Marketing

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January 29, 2024

In just over a year, artificial intelligence (AI) programs like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Bard, and more have gone from a novelty to a viable tool for an array of industries – and the seafood industry could capitalize on them to increase sales and target more customers.

The use of AI is not new to the seafood industry but typically is relegated to uses in the aquaculture industry. An analysis by ThisFish CEO and Co-Founder Eric Enno Tamm

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January 29, 2024

Global cod landings are down 33 percent over the past decade, and the downward trend has accelerated over the past three years.

On 25 January, at the 2024 Global Seafood Market Conference in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers Director of Industry Relations, Partnerships, and Fishery Analysis Ron Rogness reported global cod catch declined to 1.12 million metric tons (MT) in 2023.

Catches of Atlantic cod fell 42 percent

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Published on
January 29, 2024

Paul Jewer is the CEO of High Liner Foods, a value-added, publicly traded distributor of frozen seafood across North America, headquartered in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Santiago Alvarez is the CEO of the Alfa Gamma Group, a vertically integrated seafood company based in Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

The two spoke on a panel titled “Inside the C-Suite” at the Global Seafood Market Conference in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. on 24 January,

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Published on
January 26, 2024

Alaskan Leader Seafoods is working to have its miso black cod penetrate markets across the U.S., as the company works to leverage the growing available quota into a sustainable option for Alaska’s fishing fleet. 

The company has been expanding the product in both retail and restaurant markets, capitalizing on the notoriety it obtained through winning two awards at the Alaska Symphony of Seafood in 2022. Alaskan Leader Seafoods

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January 26, 2024

The United States and the European Union have seen reduced imports of pollock fillets, even as domestic production of Alaskan pollock fillets is rising in the U.S.

At the 2024 Global Seafood Market Conference in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. on 25 January, Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers Director of Industry Relations, Partnerships, and Fishery Analysis Ron Rogness reported the global pollock catch will increase 12 percent between 2022 and 2024,

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