Live Dungeness Shipments to China Hampered by Rumors of Cadmium Contamination
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Susan Chambers - May 1, 2017
Uncertainty in live Dungeness crab exports to China are affecting West Coast sales and shipments. Again.
Rumors circulated last week that China importers were quarantining U.S. Dungeness crab due to cadmium this time, not domoic acid.
"They want it pre-tested," Pacific Harvest Seafoods President Jim Gonzalez said.
Fishermen said a couple processors dropped the ex-vessel price to them because live shipments to China have slowed or stopped altogether. Live shipments to China have buoyed the sales of spring and summer crab harvesters once the main Dungeness crab season slows down and larger vessels move ...
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