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Snow Crab Market Analysis

Price Model Performance

This chart shows our model's historical pricing accuracy against actual Snow Crab market prices from 2012-2024.

Snow Crab Price Model Historical Fit (2012-2024)

Overall Fit

MAPE: 0.50%

MAE: $0.58

RMSE: $0.91

Best Fitting Periods

2019: 0.47% MAPE

2024: 0.82% MAPE

2020: 1.17% MAPE

Challenging Periods

2015: 13.33% MAPE

2022: 5.86% MAPE

2023: 4.27% MAPE

Key Observations:

  • Model performs well in stable market conditions (2019-2020)
  • Larger errors during market transitions (2015, 2022)
  • Successfully captures major price level shifts
  • Recent performance shows good stability
  • 95% confidence bands illustrate prediction uncertainty
  • Most actual prices fall within confidence bounds

About This Data

This analysis compares our proprietary Snow Crab pricing model against historical market prices. The model incorporates supply chain factors, catch volumes, import/export trends, and seasonal variation to predict market prices with confidence intervals.

Data source: Aggregated trade data and market prices from 2012-2024, with monthly sampling focused on June figures for year-over-year comparison.