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This figure depicts the demand for cultured blue
mussels imported from Canada during 1997-98.
The horizontal lines represent the price of mussels
without (black) and with (red) production from a US
coastal-ocean farm. Our models predict that a full-scale
open-ocean aquaculture farm is likely to supply
enough mussels to the market to drive price
down. Note that price is variable, as there are a
number of influential factors, including the supply
of substitute shellfish and the effects of competitive
strategies. As an example of the latter, the US Inter-national
Trade Commission currently is investigating
an antidumping complaint issued by a US producer
against Canadian growers.
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