The Winding Glass: Crab to Put a Damper on Holiday Retail Sales
Every aspect of the snow crab market this year has been impacted by the tariff turmoil of last April, just when the season was getting underway.
The primary impact was to front-load exports from Canada to the US as much as possible, so most of the crab pack was imported by the end of July. Crab followed its seasonal pattern of increasing prices after July as supplies tightened, but retail contracts were mostly made near the lowest price points of the year...
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