The bar graph provides information on the volume of seafood imports in the United States between t years 1986 and 2016 with a prediction for 2026, while the pie chart illustrates from which countries th seafood was imported in 2016.
Overall, seafood imports tripled over that twenty-year period, with the top three countries controllin more than two-thirds of the market in the United States. In the future, however, import levels are forecast to shrink.
Looking from an overall perspective, the US seafood imports increased from about so bilies in billo over sto billion in 1996, Over the following ten years, that amount doubled and crossed the sue Unit mark in 2016. Despite the past growth, it is predicted that the trend will change and in 2026 the Unte States will receive approximately $2 bilion fewer seafood products from abroad than it did in 2015.
With regard to the geographical split of imports, the three countries that dominated the market in were China, Thailand, and Canada, which respectively imported 28 per cent, 23 per cent, and 16 per of the seafood. The imports from other countries – including Indonesia, Vietnam, and Ecuador – constituted one-third of the total annual seafood imports.