WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
NATIONAL SEAFOOD MONTH
Profile America — Sunday, October 23rd. October is National Seafood Month, celebrating a nutrient-rich food that is a good source of protein, vitamins and minerals. Because it really does turn out to be brain food, government and health organizations recommend eating two seafood meals each week. Seafood used to be mostly confined to the coastal regions, but with advances in frozen food and the speed of distribution, just about every kind of fish and shellfish is available throughout the country. Americans eat an average of nearly 14.5 pounds of seafood annually, dining on the fishing industry's annual catch of over 9 billion pounds. There are nearly 640 seafood product preparation and packaging establishments in the U.S., employing around 32,000 people in a $12.3 billion a year business. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Seafood Month/accessed 8/2/2016: http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-seafood-month-october/
Seafood and health/accessed 8/3/2016: http://seafoodhealthfacts.org/
Seafood as food for the brain/accessed 8/3/2016: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/further-confirmation-that-eating-229522
Per capita consumption/p. 1/accessed 8/3/2016: http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/Assets/commercial/fus/fus13/09_percapita2013.pdf
Seafood catch/p. 5/accessed 8/3/2016: http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/Assets/commercial/fus/fus13/02_commercial2013.pdf
Seafood packaging establishments/NAICS 3117: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2014/00A1//naics~3117
Employees and receipts/NAICS 3117: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ASM/2014/31AS101//naics~3117
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
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