Americans Are Cooking More Seafood, but Fishermen Are Struggling

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The coronavirus crisis is hitting seafood businesses even harder than the meat industry, prompting fishermen and processors to overhaul their operations and look for new customers.

U.S. supermarket shoppers are buying more fish and shellfish to prepare at home during quarantine, but business owners say the rise isn’t enough to offset the loss of sales to restaurants, where 70% of seafood is consumed, according to market-research firm Urner Barry.

Captains across the country have docked vessels and distributors have rerouted what fresh fish they can into freezers, sometimes destroying the rest. Prices for items like lobster tails and salmon have plummeted as costs climb for processors trying to prevent the virus from spreading in seafood plants as it has in slaughterhouses.

Seafood purveyors are marketing more fish to consumers and grocery stores.

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