About 91% of US seafood is imported, because the country's aquaculture output has not kept up with demand, ranking outside the top 10 worldwide. The majority of US seafood is farm-raised rather than wild-caught in order to keep up with growing demand. The most-imported types of seafood in the US are shrimp from Asia; Atlantic salmon from Chile, Norway and Canada; and tilapia from China and Honduras.
More about US seafood:
- The US is the second-largest consumer of seafood after China, and Americans eat about 2 million tons of seafood each year.
- As much as 32% of imported seafood in the US is estimated to have been caught illegally.
- More than half of the seafood consumed in the US is either shrimp, canned tuna or salmon.