Do the US shrimp import numbers for January reveal the beginning of a major crack in the windshield, or was it just another minor splinter that'll be patched up as soon as next month's data arrives?

That's the question wholesalers must have been asking themselves on Friday morning as they looked out through the spiderweb of broken glass apparent in the latest release by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of its monthly seafood trade data [...]