Shrimp price increase of 60% year over year dwarfs all other proteins, says BLS
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS - April 16, 2014
Shrimp prices have been in the news again because the US Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its March producer price statistics, and they show shrimp price increases dwarfing every other meat and fish item.
At the January NFI Global Seafood Market conference, analysts who compared other commodities to seafood generally confirmed that beef and pork prices would rise proportionally more than seafood prices, and this is borne out in the BLS march statistics.
But shrimp is another story entirely. The graph below says it all:
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