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North Pacific: geoducks: new testing process may increase product and profits in live market. (Market Report).

Publication: National Fisherman
Publication Date: 01-JAN-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Alaska's geoduck diving industry has taken steps toward resolving a longstanding sticking point between divers and state officials. Taking those steps may lead to a boost in the fishery's profits.

In September, geoduck divers and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation ratified a new shellfish testing plan. The new method changes how divers and processors test the big clams for unmarketable concentrations of paralytic shellfish poison.

The testing methodology has long been a problem between the divers and the department. Divers disliked the old method because they expended harvesting effort before sending out geoduck samples.

Samples were sent to a lab in Palmer, Alaska, some 700 miles north. Clams harvested on a Monday,...

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