TY - JOUR
T1 - An Overview of Retail Sales of Seafood in the USA, 2017–2019
AU - Love, David C.
AU - Asche, Frank
AU - Young, Ruth
AU - Nussbaumer, Elizabeth M.
AU - Anderson, James L.
AU - Botta, Robert
AU - Conrad, Zach
AU - Froehlich, Halley E.
AU - Garlock, Taryn M.
AU - Gephart, Jessica A.
AU - Ropicki, Andrew
AU - Stoll, Joshua S.
AU - Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under an INFEWS grant [#2018-67003-27408] and a NIFA Hatch project [#1015617]. Additional support for DCL, RY, EMN and ATL was also provided by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future with a gift from the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. HEF recognizes support from the University of California, Santa Barbara. FA recognizes support from NOAA #NA21OAR4170091. We thank Jerry Aurigemma at Nielsen for his helpful conversations. Rebecca Ramsing and Ken Chang at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future kindly reviewed the paper.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - While a large number of studies have investigated seafood consumption in various markets, surprisingly little is known about the types of seafood sold in retail outlets or their product forms in the USA. This is particularly true for fresh seafood, which is generally regarded as the most valuable product form of seafood. In this article, a unique dataset on retail in-store seafood sales that includes information about three main product forms (fresh, frozen, and shelf-stable products) was analyzed. Fresh seafood is important, as it makes up 43% of sales revenue. Moreover, some species are almost exclusively sold fresh, with trout and lobster as prime examples. Fresh also includes the greatest diversity of species and, as such, is the most likely product form for new producers to succeed. National sales are dominated by a few species, with salmon and shrimp accounting for a large portion of the fresh (27%) and frozen categories (43%), respectively, and tuna dominating the shelf-stable category (75%). There are also a large number of species with mostly small market shares. There are few differences in regional sales patterns for the main species, with notable exceptions such as whitefish in New England and crawfish in Louisiana and Texas. The degree of urbanization and income level appears as the important drivers for seafood sales. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2021.1946481.
AB - While a large number of studies have investigated seafood consumption in various markets, surprisingly little is known about the types of seafood sold in retail outlets or their product forms in the USA. This is particularly true for fresh seafood, which is generally regarded as the most valuable product form of seafood. In this article, a unique dataset on retail in-store seafood sales that includes information about three main product forms (fresh, frozen, and shelf-stable products) was analyzed. Fresh seafood is important, as it makes up 43% of sales revenue. Moreover, some species are almost exclusively sold fresh, with trout and lobster as prime examples. Fresh also includes the greatest diversity of species and, as such, is the most likely product form for new producers to succeed. National sales are dominated by a few species, with salmon and shrimp accounting for a large portion of the fresh (27%) and frozen categories (43%), respectively, and tuna dominating the shelf-stable category (75%). There are also a large number of species with mostly small market shares. There are few differences in regional sales patterns for the main species, with notable exceptions such as whitefish in New England and crawfish in Louisiana and Texas. The degree of urbanization and income level appears as the important drivers for seafood sales. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2021.1946481.
KW - Fish
KW - fresh
KW - frozen
KW - retail
KW - seafood
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U2 - 10.1080/23308249.2021.1946481
DO - 10.1080/23308249.2021.1946481
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85110748498
SN - 2330-8249
VL - 30
SP - 259
EP - 270
JO - Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture
JF - Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture
IS - 2
ER -