Around 150 new surimi seafood processors opened in China last year, China’s largest surimi producer said.

Although the size of the new processors is not known, the figure offers a glimpse into China’s mushrooming surimi production and consumption.

The statistic was shared by Longsheng Aquatic Products in a presentation at the 12 surimi forum in Oregon on May 8.

Even though many of these processors could be relatively small, it is still a “shocking number,” Pascal Guenneugues, director of Future Seafood Consulting, told IntraFish.

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