Canadian fishing and processing giant Clearwater Seafoods CEO Ian Smith said there's a lot of potential moving forward with the company's clam business, particularly after adding a third clam vessel.

"We significantly increased our supply of sushi grade clams. We will sell more clams this year than 2015," he said during a company earnings conference call Thursday.

"We're selling more clams than expected and harvesting it faster and more efficiently than expected."

He said they plan to expand global distribution and consumption of sushi grade clams "because we never had enough product to reliably and predictably fill customer orders."

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