1. The United States (U.S.) is the third largest seafood market in the world, behind Japan and China. Its annual consumption is about five billion pounds.
2. According to Datamonitor, U.S. consumers spent an estimated US $13.1 billion for seafood products in 2008 which includes US $8.8 billion in expenditures on fresh seafood; US $ 2.3 billion in retail sales for frozen fish and seafood,  and US $ 2.0 billion for canned fish and seafood. By 2010, it is expected that Americans will spend US $ 14.0 billion on fish and seafood.