The US continues to import more shrimp, and India leads the way, the latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reveal.

No less than 34 different countries sent 61,024 metric tons of shrimp to the US in July 2017, a 15.8% increase over US shrimp imports in July 2016 and a 14.2% increase over June 2017, according to NOAA's numbers. At the seven-month point of the year, US shrimp imports are at 347,115t, a 9.6% increase over the first seven months of 2016.

Argentina, China, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Vietnam all sent the US more shrimp in July 2017 than they did in June 2017, but India was the top supplier with 20,500t, a 47.5% increase over the amount it delivered in July 2016. The imports from India nearly doubled the 10,600t of shrimp contributed to the US by second-place Indonesia in July 2017, which represented an 18.3% decline year-over-year.

India led all US shrimp suppliers in 2016 with 153,956t but is now on pace to shatter that figure by 56.4% based on its first seven months.