| Mr. You said the damage was at least limited to Zhanjiang. There are no shells in the area to purchase yet either, it will all have to come from hatchery or stock brought in from elsewhere.
If the farmers can re-nucleate and get shell in the water quickly, while they will not have anything to harvest this coming Winter, they will still have a future.
I am not sure what they are going to do with all the prematurely harvested akoya, though. There is not much of a market for it here.
I think akoya smaller than 7mm is going to be scarce in 2008...
Below is a shot of some of the deal shell in Xuwen. |