I do contract work at Omega Protein, a very large provider of fish meal and can tell you this, the price of fish meal has gone up considerably in the last two years.
The boats and planes that go out for the Pogie fish have had their fuel bills triple, just like everyone else.
So far, this looks like a pretty good year for fishing as the boats are coming in full, verses several years ago when fishing was poor.
Corporate is squeezing the plants to be as efficient as ever, as the costs to run the plants are becoming very high.
No different then any other facet of our lives, prices are going up for all the reasons that we know are true, yet our government tells us inflation is in check, sure.