GSMC 2024: Chilean Atlantic Salmon Supply Outlook Down 5% For This year

The Salmon Panel at the National Fisheries Institute’s (NFI) Global Seafood Market Conference (GSMC) shared some interesting insight this week, revealing that the Atlantic salmon supply outlook for 2024 will be on par with last year. However, when breaking it down by country, the harvest volume out of Chile is estimated to be down 5%, according to data from Kontali.

For 2023 the total harvest volume of Atlantic Salmon was 2,810,000 tonnes. Meanwhile, 2024 is estimated to be at 2,849,000 tonnes; a 1% increase. But looking at Chile...

GSMC 2024: NFI President Lisa Wallenda Picard Addresses The Trident-Sized Elephant In The Room

SeafoodNews is reporting live from the National Fisheries Institute’s Global Seafood Market Conference in Orlando. You can find all of our GSMC 2024 coverage here.

National Fisheries Institute President and CEO Lisa Wallenda Picard addressed the Trident Seafoods-sized elephant in the room during the “Inside the Seafood C-Suite” panel Wednesday afternoon. In the panel, moderated by Cliff White of Diversified Communications, an audience member asked a question regarding NFI’s public policy disagreement with a former NFI member...

GSMC 2024: Alaska Snow Crab Is “Going To Need Time”

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The Shellfish Panel at NFI’s Global Seafood Market Conference put Jeremy Woodrow, Executive Director at the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, in the hot seat on Tuesday afternoon when talking about crab.

The panel, led by Rob Kragh of Ready Seafood and Janice Schreiber of Urner Barry, gave GSMC attendees an overview of the snow crab market. But when talking about Alaska and the state of...

GSMC 2024: Roundtable Channels Taylor Swift to Welcome The ‘Freight & Logistics Era’

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Taylor Swift is everywhere – including NFI’s Global Seafood Market Conference! 

The GSMC Seafood Roundtable, moderated by NFI’s Richard Barry, woke up the crowd by channeling their inner Taylor Swift with wigs (you can thank James Berger of Slade Gorton), a killer playlist, and their own “eras.”

The first era? Freight and Logistics! Because as Barry said, “it’s a hot mess...

GSMC 2024: Salmon an “Absolute Powerhouse” Despite Seafood Struggles at Retail

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Anne-Marie Roerink with 210 Analytics and Chris DuBois of Circana kicked off the National Fisheries Institute’s (NFI) Global Seafood Market Conference on Tuesday with a look at seafood at retail. And to no one’s surprise, “2023 was a tough year for everyone,” with prices up 30-35% versus pre-pandemic. 

Seafood took a big hit due to its premium positioning. According to Roerink...

GSMC 2024: Cell-Cultured Seafood Panel Provides Much Optimism For The Future

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Wild caught, farmed … and now cell-cultured. There are still some hurdles for this new form of seafood. But Wednesday morning’s panel at the National Fisheries Institute’s Global Seafood Market Conference was certainly optimistic about the future. 

Tim Fires of Circana moderated  the Cell-Cultured Seafood Update Panel with Ellen Kim of Pulmuone Foods USA, Trevor Faber of Nutreco and Lou Cooperhouse...

GSMC 2024: Global Farmed Shrimp Production Predicted to Slightly Decrease in 2024

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Robins McIntosh, Executive Vice President of Charoen Pokphand Foods, kicked off the Shrimp Species Panel at NFI’s Global Seafood Market Conference by predicting a slight decrease in global shrimp production. While global shrimp production for 2023 is at 5,150,727 MT, the prediction for 2024 is 5,100,000 MT.

According to McIntosh, these figures changed in just the last few weeks as Ecuador...

National Fisheries Institute Celebrates Judy Dashiell’s 20 Years of Leadership 

Today the National Fisheries Institute celebrates Judy Dashiell’s 20 years of leadership. Judy is the Chief Operating Officer of the country’s largest seafood trade association, but she is much more than that. She is a force of nature for the association and the industry.

Taking a moment during the Global Seafood Market Conference (GSMC) to honor her reminds us that she was a seminal force in bringing the very first GSMC to life. She was the creative architect who built the award-winning Dish on Fish...