Beihai, Guangxi: Scallop Season Take Over The Clam Sell
Feb 26th,2010
The farm-raised scallop in Weizhou island, Beihai, Guangxi enter the market in season, meet the requirement of the festival seafoods demand. The price is not high for the adequate supply, near RMB 2.25 per kg for the specification of 3.5—4 pcs per kg. After the 7-day holiday, the number of visitors fall, the seafood demand go down, the price will lower and about RMB 2 per kg. Different from the scallop supply, the clam is in off-season, by the increased demand from the other region, the price is about RMB2.1 per kg for the specification of 10-15 pcs per kg. At the same time, the ratail price rise to RMB 3.5-3.75 per kg. The new clam season will come on August and September, but now the scallop occupy a dominant postion instead of calms, number of clam in market is less, scallop price will remain its high price.