date:May 28, 2014
Shellfish farmers welcomed China's recent lifting of a ban of live shellfish from the US West Coast, a move that could signal pickup in trade and creation of job opportunities.
China on May 23 lifted the five-month-old ban on imports of live seafood including clams, oysters, mussels and scallops from Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington State.
Mark Schaffel, a shellfish farmer and owner of Northwest Shellfish Co Inc in Olympia, Washington, said: The lifting of the ban is great because g