date:Jan 04, 2013
have the best of both worlds: strong domestic demand and prices, as well as growing Chinese demand. The 50-100 tons he shipped in 2011 and 2012 is a reduction on what he was shipping five years ago: Liu has had to reduce the shipments in order to ensure oyster stocks remain stable and able to supply both domestic and export demand.
However, a significant challenge to production is a lack of availability of West Coast seashore due to acidification a problem that has also driven up domestic oyst