Distributors are predicting a jump in demand of 30 percent to 35 percent, and oyster growers had to plan two years ago to get spat in the water that would grow to commercial size shellfish in time for the Olympics. “You can’t just suddenly ramp up demand that much," Sandra Hamilton, marketing specialist for the BCSGA, told IntraFish.
When trying to estimate how much product to have available, Hamilton said growers were told to quadruple the 250,000 people who annually attended the city’s four-day fireworks event in the summer, when it used to be held.
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