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Restaurant operators face significant challenges – especially finding enough employees – but have pent-up dining demand in their favor, according to B. Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of the National Restaurant Association Research and Knowledge Group.

Restaurants’ labor costs are running at the highest rate in more than 40 years, Riehle said at the National Fisheries Institute’s Global Seafood Market Conference

The crab market “is at a place where it’s never really been before,” with constrictions in supply and astronomical prices, according to Chicken of the Sea Frozen Foods Vice President of Category Management Rob Kragh ... 

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Global shrimp production has continued to trend upward, with a panel of experts at the National Fisheries Institute’s Global Seafood Market Conference predicting that global shrimp production will exceed 5 million metric tons (MT) in 2022.

Current predictions put the production at 5.011 million MT in 2022, a significant increase over the 4.569 million MT grown in 2021, which itself was an increase over the 4.086 million MT produced in

Historically, conversations around logistics didn’t always reach the top level of the seafood industry’s decision-making hierarchy, but in the past two years, that has changed.

A Global Seafood Market Conference (GSMC) panel on Tuesday, 18 January, examined how logistics became top-of-mind for seafood executives, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has decimated the industry’s ability to use forecasting for business-planning

Pangasius is back on an upward trajectory for both 3-5 and 7-9 ounce boneless skinless frozen fillets, as prices reach new record highs, according to data shared during the National Fisheries Insitute’s Global Seafood Market Conference …

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New predictive data from Kontali Analyse indicates that global production of farmed Atlantic salmon will remain relatively flat in 2022, even as demand continues its expected increase in pace.

The data, shared during the National Fisheries Institute’s Global Seafood Market Conference, predicts that the global supply of farmed Atlantic salmon will increase by roughly 1 percent in 2022. Of that total, North American production is expected to

Fresh and frozen seafood hit record sales in 2021, and analysts speaking at the National Fisheries Institute’s Global Seafood Market Conference (GSMC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. on Tuesday, 18 January expect the positive sales trend to continue.

The frozen seafood category realized “amazing numbers” last year, IRI Senior Vice President Protein Practice Chris DuBois said, as sales rose 2.8 percent compared to 2020 and 40.8

Supply chain issues leading to higher prices and lack of availability for other seafood species, and other protein types, have ended up being a boon for tilapia, according to a panel of experts speaking at the National Fisheries Institute’s Global Seafood Market Conference (GSMC) …

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John Connelly will retire as the president of the National Fisheries Institute, the leading U.S. seafood industry trade group, he announced at the NFI Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday, 18 January.

Connelly made the announcement at the opening of NFI’s 2022 Global Seafood Market Conference, taking place 18 to 20 January, 2022, at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. Connelly said he intends to retire by

At the beginning of the panel on premium finfish at the 2019 Global Seafood Market Conference in Coronado, California, on 15 January, moderator Derek Figueroa, the chief operating officer of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.-based Seattle Fish Company, flashed a slide with the definition of both “premium” and “premium seafood.”

• Premium: Noun – a high-value or a value in excess of that normally or usually expected. Adjective