{"id":22030,"date":"2025-03-11T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=22030"},"modified":"2025-03-11T14:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:07:46","slug":"united-states-department-of-agriculture-purchases-above-100-million-of-local-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/03\/11\/united-states-department-of-agriculture-purchases-above-100-million-of-local-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Department of Agriculture purchases $100 million in local fish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is reprising its status as the government department with the most annual purchases by sourcing $100 million in domestic fish.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department\u2019s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) arm had by March 7, 2025 awarded multimillion-dollar contracts to pollock, shrimp and catfish suppliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the supplies will end up in the agency\u2019s Child Nutrition program while others in domestic food programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contracts go to successful applicants within the deadline period, whose first phase in 2025 ended January 31. Such contracts also undergo inventory scrutiny by the office of the Inspector general<\/u><\/a> at the agriculture department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major Contracts<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Among the lucky contractors is the Pacific Northwest-based Trident Seafoods, which bagged $25.3 million<\/u><\/a> to supply Alaska pollock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another is east coast\u2019s Channel Fish, which will supply $22.4 million in Atlantic pollock to go to the Child Nutrition program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the important contracts is that for shrimp because the species constitutes the most consumed seafood in the U.S. Shrimp suppliers include two Gulf Coast firms, namely Paul Piazza & Sons at $14.5 million and Ocean Select Seafood at $5.1 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catfish supplies will in their part come from Heartland Catfish of Mississippi (MI) with a contract worth around $13.4 million. The rest will be courtesy of \u00a0Itta Bena, also from MI, at $8.4 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does the Program Work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The USDA food buying program ensures proper nutrition in public schools through searchable databases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributing organizations and suppliers can access various foods\u2019 statuses through a dashboard that shows current meal catalogues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2024 calendar year, for example, the National Lunch Program alone listed 4,854.4 million meals<\/u><\/a>. Its historical food serving catalogue has sometimes breached the 5 million -meal mark since 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the most import protein sources,\u00a0competitively-priced fish<\/u><\/a>\u00a0supplies comprise a substantial portion of all nutritional purchases by the United States Department of Agriculture. To learn more on the numerical portion of seafood in annual federal purchases, skim the statistics below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United States Department of Agriculture Seafood Buying Program Statistics<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The USDA spends between\u00a0$5 billion<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(2023) and $10 billion (2020) in food purchases that mainly constitute dairy and vegetables (60%). Seafood such as shrimp, catfish and salmon amount to hundreds of millions of dollars each year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the portion of USDA\u2019s seafood purchases among food procurements<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Congress report, seafood purchases for nutritional programs grew from 2% in 2012 to 8%<\/u><\/a> of all food purchases in 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which seafood c<\/strong>onstitutes<\/strong> the most nutrition program supplies<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shrimp has made up the greatest dollar value of seafood purchases since 2020. In 2020, the USDA\u2019s purchases of this fish amounted to over $75 million while in 2023 they had hit\u00a0over $225 million<\/u><\/a>. Catfish follows with over $175 million while salmon finishes third with over $100 million, as of 2023. Other fish cumulatively go to over $350 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are all USDA purchases exact each year<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to beneficiary contributions, some annual food procurement go into surplus. These are known as bonus or entitlement purchases and they remain as emergency reserves. In 2023 they amounted to $2.3 billion, above the actual orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do procurements come at market prices<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the National School Lunch Program as example, it is apparent that nutritional procurements come at reduced prices. Between 1969 and 2023, the program recorded between\u00a00.5 and 3.2%<\/u><\/a>\u00a0in annual reduced price averages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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