It’s a week before Christmas, and, as usual at this time of year, IntraFish endeavors to keep the news coming thick and fast, while also recapping the main events of the year gone by.

This past week we broke the latest seafood consumption trends in the United States – namely how US per capita seafood consumption jumped 7.4 percent in 2017, with consumers spending $102 billion on the protein over the period.

The increase was mainly driven by Americans eating more shrimp and salmon, but on the other hand consumption of tilapia and pollock was down during the year.