American Industry Overview: Canned and Cured Fish and Seafoods
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in cooking and canning seafood products such as fish, shrimp, oysters, clams, and crab or in curing seafood products by means such as smoking, salting or drying. It also includes manufacturers of seafood soups, chowders, stews, broths, and juices.
Industry Snapshot
The value of U.S. canned fish and seafood industry shipments was $1.2 billion in 2008; overall fresh and frozen seafood processing industries, of which this category is a part, were $8.2 billion. The industry enjoyed growth partly due to the high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet fads...