date:May 29, 2014
ys NOAA officials came back convinced that the ban was a public health issue and not a political one. They were as anxious to get it resolved as we were, said Dewey.
The lesson that Dewey hopes is learned here is a geographical one: In their investigation, Chinese officials referred only to export health certificates, which said the geoducks were harvested from Area 67, as that is all that form requires or allows. But as Dewey explained, Area 67 stretches from northern California to Siberia. If