Surimi seafood sales, demand, and production in the United States have been relatively flat in the past few years, but a new consumer group may change everything, especially in sushi-grade and low-grade products.
Recently the estimated 76 million "Baby Boomers," people born in the 1960s and '70s, lost their title as the largest generation to the estimated 80 million "Millennials," those born after 1980 to 18-year-olds, and with it a new sense of food discovery and willingness to eat differently.
Susan Ruiz, president of Anacortes, Wash.-based