A clam fishery that produces a harvest abalone worth about CAD 50-million a year has become the focu

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A clam fishery that produces a harvest abalone worth about CAD 50-million a year has become the focus of intense lobbying efforts as groups manoeuvre for control of some of the prime growing sites in British Columbia, Canada.
The Pacific geoduck is the largest burrowing clam in the world and since the late 1970s, when divers learned to dislodge the bivalves from hard-packed sand using jet streams of water, the wild fishery has grown into one of the most prosperous on the West Coast, reports The Globe and Mail .
There abalone are only 50 wild harvest licences in B.C., but with a big demand for the product in Asia, there has been increased pressure on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to permit the development of new geoduck farms. B.C. produces about 1,500 metric tons of geoducks annually, of which about 75t are cultured. An adult clam weighs about 1 kilogram and sells for about $25-$35 at the dock in B.C.
In a recent letter to federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea, Haida Seafood Products, a company partly owned by the Old Massett Village Council, states that it is going to mark out the boundaries of a new geoduck farm on the north coast of Haida Gwaii, and simply go into production without awaiting government approval.
Fisheries and Oceans and the Underwater Harvesters Association [UHA] will be notified that our tenure site is off limits to any and all commercial fisheries, states the letter. We will purge harvest the wild geoduck on the tenure site to free up space for geoduck seeding.
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