US Seafood Industry Accounted for 1.6 Million Jobs in 2015; Above 5-Year-Average
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Michael Ramsingh - May 10, 2017
The US commercial and recreational seafood industry accounted for 1.6 million jobs across the country in 2015 according to NOAA’s annual Fisheries Economics of the United States report, which was released this week.
Of those jobs the commercial seafood industry supported 1.2 million full and part-time jobs and generated $144.2 billion in sales, $39.7 billion in income, and $60.6 billion in value-added impacts nationwide. The retail sector generated the largest employment impacts across sectors at 573,000 jobs. The importers sector generated the largest sales impacts at $58.3 billion while the retail sector generated the largest income impacts at $13.3 billion. Meanwhile, the retail sector generated the largest value-added impacts at $18.2 billion...
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