The topsy-turvy nature of the past three years have made it tough to predict what’s going to happen in the whitefish market, Endeavor Seafood Vice President and Partner Todd Clark told SeafoodSource.
Speaking after a panel on the state of the whitefish industry at the National Fisheries Institute;s Global Seafood Market Conference – which ran from 15 to 19 January in La Quinta, California, U.S.A. – Clark said the normal predictable patterns of the industry are out the window.
“Like I said earlier in the fourth quarter, I was hoping things are coming back to sort of the normal cycles that we’ve built. And for the past few years, that juts hasn’t been the case,” Clark said. “Usually in a crisis you have a beginning, a middle, and an end. And like I said in the panel, it has been beginning, middle, middle, middle.”
The whitefish market’s fluctuations during Lent, he said, are a great indicator of the unpredictable nature of the current state of the fish market ...