Seafood Market Craters After Restaurants Shuttered Worldwide

  • Industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars is hammered
  • Canned fish products are a rare bright spot for companies
Fishing boats sit anchored at a pier in Thailand.Photographer: Craig Lovell/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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Just one kilogram of freshly caught squid a day was almost enough to live on for Thai fishermen like Wisut Boonnak. Now the catch has halved in price and he’s spending more time on village duties.