US supermarket sells a record number of seafood products as global warming causes the market to tank
New data from the US retail market shows that, on average, Americans consume more seafood than ever before, even as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.
A total of 7,959,100 tonnes of seafood was sold in the United States last year, more than in any year since the market was established in 1996.
The data from SeafoodMarket.com, a market research firm, also shows that the US wholesale market is now home to the most seafood in the world.
In addition to the US, European countries and Japan also rank highly in the seafood market.
But it’s not just seafood.
The wholesale seafood industry is also growing.
The Seafood Market.com data shows that wholesale seafood sales grew by an average of 8.6% in the first quarter of 2017.
This was a record for the US market.
In fact, wholesale seafood market sales have increased by more than 4.5% per quarter over the past three years.
The retail market in the US is already home to an impressive 5.6 million tonnes of fish and seafood, and in the third quarter of 2016, US seafood sales reached a new high.
Seafood market share is up even more in Japan, where the market is growing at an average rate of 10.7%.
The US seafood market is also booming in Asia.
In 2017, the US seafood sector grew by 10% per year.
This is more than double the growth rate for the entire Asia Pacific region combined.
In Japan, however, seafood market share was still declining at 7.6%.
The data shows how fast global warming is affecting seafood sales.
The rise in seafood market shares means that more seafood is available to Americans in their homes, and more seafood sales are happening in less crowded, more expensive markets.
The US market is no longer the only place where seafood sales have been dropping.
The UK is also seeing declining seafood sales, while Italy has been on a downward trend.
In 2016, the UK saw its annual seafood market turnover drop by 1.3%.
In 2017 it fell by 0.4%.
In contrast, in 2016, seafood prices in the UK were up by almost 5%.
It is likely that the rise in food prices will be even bigger in the next few years as global temperatures rise.
The World Bank and the European Commission have called for more stringent measures to tackle climate change, which are likely to come in the form of mandatory greenhouse gas reduction targets, a cap-and-trade scheme and carbon pricing.
The EU is already putting together a comprehensive plan to tackle global warming.
But the US and the EU may face another difficult period.
