While the seafood industry has its challenges that are unique to the animal protein industry, consumer trends tend to overlap across all types of proteins. The same demands that are affecting the pork, beef or chicken sectors have an impact for seafood as well.
This is the age of seafood. Foodable Labs, in its 2018 Protein Sourcing Report, noted an 81.3 percent increase in positive social-media mentions of seafood year-over-year.