Tuesday, March 31, 2015

As expected, the ban has taken a heavy, heavy toll on the industry. British Columbia's harvest is do


Hong Kong's ban on British Columbia's export of the geoduck clam, aka the "horse penis clam", aka the world's weirdest-looking shellfish ever, has left the the Canadian province's fish street industry hanging just like the anatomical feature with which this sea creature shares its name.
As expected, the ban has taken a heavy, heavy toll on the industry. British Columbia's harvest is down around 180,000kg compared to this time last year, according to SCMP , citing Underwater Harvesters Association president James Austin.
“Forty boats up north have just had to have five days off because they haven’t had the ability to sell,” Austin said in the report. "We’ve got workers in Vancouver, at five or six different plants that are slowed down right now, we’ve got trucking companies fish street that are now only trucking 25 per cent of the product that we normally ship…it just escalates,” he said.
all our cities one convenient app
close

No comments:

Post a Comment