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Article: Tilapia: sales of this popular whitefish just keep growing in both retail and foodservice.(Species FOCUS)
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- Seafood Business
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- October 1, 2006
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Ten years ago, tilapia accounted for around 10 percent of the business at Western Edge Seafood in Washington, Pa. Now the farm-raised fish represents at least half--maybe even 60 percent--of the company's sales.
"We took a stand," says John Victoria, CEO of Western Edge, which sources frozen tilapia from a partner on Hainan Island off China's southern coast. "We knew tilapia was going to be one of the species of the future: farm-raised, mild taste, good price and plenty of production. And it panned out for us."
It also panned out for Tropical Aquaculture Products in Rutland, Vt., which late this summer was selling about 375,000 pounds of flesh tilapia ...