4. We’ll take it: The annual per-capita seafood consumption rate is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated statistic released each year. Unfortunately, it’s been nothing bad news recently, showing gradual drops every year since 2007 when the rate was 16.5 pounds per capita. This year the bleeding appeared to stop, but only slightly, as consumption settled at 14.5 pounds per capita for 2013. Shrimp is still No. 1, but consumption has fallen from a high of 4.4 pounds in 2006 to just 3.6 pounds last year.
December 30, 2014
