Nearly half of US seafood supply is wasted

The study suggests that 1.3 billion pounds of US seafood supply are lost at the consumer level. Credit: John from Tulsa, USA/CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New research from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) suggests that as much as 47% of the edible US seafood supply is lost each year, mainly from consumer waste.

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