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This SeaFood Business special feature examines how U.S. seafood buyers and suppliers are embracing globalization and how innovation and policy have shaped the global seafood trade.

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October 2006 Top Story:

U.S. seafood buyers have a difficult job compared to other center-of-plate protein buyers: There are hundreds of seafood species caught and farmed in dozens of countries worldwide. Sourcing seafood in today’s global economy requires a vast knowledge of trade politics, foreign relations, environmental and social issues, currency, geography and even biology.

The task is complicated because the United States can’t produce as much as seafood as it consumes. Nearly 90 percent of the U.S. edible-seafood supply is imported. Both wild- and farmed-seafood production have leveled off in this country, where fishing restrictions are tight and land and labor is expensive.

To better control supply, quality and costs, seafood buyers and suppliers alike are opening production facilities overseas or are forming exclusive relationships with foreign producers, or both.

This SeaFood Business special feature examines how U.S. seafood buyers and suppliers are embracing globalization and how innovation and policy have shaped the global seafood trade.

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