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Table 1 US nutrition assistance programs that support seafood purchasing, 2013

From: Fisheries, food, and health in the USA: the importance of aligning fisheries and health policies

Federal program

Approved seafood

People participating annually (millions)

Total cost (million US dollars)

Seafood cost (million)

Seafood quantity purchased (million pounds)

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Any seafooda

47.4

79,936

n/a

n/a

Child Nutrition Programs

 National School Lunch Program

Numerous productsb

30.6

12,220

7.5

1.6

 School Breakfast Program

n/a

13.2

3514

  

 Summer Food Service Program

n/a

2.4 (daily)

428

  

 Child/Adult Care Program

n/a

3.6 (daily)

2994

  

Women, Infants, and Children Program

Canned chunk light tuna, pink salmon, sardines

8.7

6488

n/a

n/a

The Emergency Food Assistance Program

 

n/a

693

13.7

3.8

 

Canned pink salmon

  

3.8

1.7

 

Unbreaded catfish fillets

  

9.9

2.1

Commodity Supplemental Food Program

Canned pink salmon

0.58

203

3.0

1.3

Food Distribution on Indian Reservations Program

Canned pink salmon

0.09

119

0.43

0.2

National Services Incentive Program (elderly feeding)

Catfish, frozen fillet strips

0.076

100

0.19

0.04

Total

 

100.6

106,695

24.8

6.9

  1. Data source: [102]
  2. aExcept hot food or food that can be eaten in the store
  3. bFresh/frozen clams, crabs, crawfish, fish fillets and steaks, fish portions, fish sticks, mackerel, oysters, scallops, squid, canned mackerel salmon, chunk light tuna, sardines, shrimp
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