"They're [people are] not looking for a long thing to do when they get home. When people are shopping for fish, we have to show them what we can do with it, and we have to make it look easy,” Durham said. “We can’t just focus on [the appeal of] raw [seafood]. We have to stimulate consumers to believe they can master this when they get home and its going to be tasty.”

American Seafoods CEO Mikel Durham agreed that consumers are looking for easier meal solutions.

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“Trying to help the consumer prepare [seafood] and teach them how to cook it is one thing, but getting them a meal they can pop in the oven is really where we need to go to make [seafood] more convenient. If you can turn on an oven, you can cook seafood well, is ultimately where we need to go.”

Guy Pizzuti, the seafood category manager for the Publix supermarket chain, served on the GSMC panel

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