Why would there be a price difference between B.C. and Washington State?
C. Pearce: Good question. I noticed that when I was putting the talk together, and I didn’t get a chance to get back to my Washington contact to ask him why. But it seems that Washington State clams are quite a bit lower in price than B.C. Perhaps Michelle or James or Bruce could answer that. J. Austin: The Washington State fishery is managed completely differently than the Canadian-B.C. geoduck fishery. They have a bid system. They have 50-percent tribal involvement in the fishery. There are a lot of players and a lot of confusion in the industry sometimes, and there seems to be difficulty in maintaining a high market price. They quite often get a lower price than we do. We have one industry that’s contributing to the marketplace, and in Washington they have several. They do have some lower quality, and they have a track system where they have no choice; they have to fish in certain areas of the state. Sometimes those areas that are bid are low quality, and they have no choice. That m
