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Namhaean oysters are in full season and are ready to harvest.
For the past two years, production has dropped due to collective mortality, but a bountiful oyster year is expected this year.
This is KNN reporter Hwang Bo-ram.
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Namhaean oyster farm, which arrived with a cool breeze, is busy from early in the morning.
When you pull up the food line from the sea, the heavy oyster keeps coming up.
The dead oysters are in very good condition.
If you look next to me, there are sacks of harvested oysters.
30 sacks weighing about 700 kg were full in about 4 hours.
The sack filling speed is faster than last year.
That's how much production increased.
[Kim Bong-hwan / Oyster Farm Operation: For a couple of years, (oysters) keep dying, so it’s not fun to work like this, but work is a little bit busier, so it tastes a little better.]
The place where the harvested oysters arrive is Park Shin-jang, who peels the oysters , There are a lot of oysters coming in, so the workers are happy to work.
[Pil-ah Kim/Shinjang Park, Oyster Worker: (Status) is good.
Eggs are fine this year.
This year, I hope that all the (working) ladies will be rich by harvesting a lot.]
A full-fledged oyster auction started with the first sale in prayer for a bountiful year of oysters.
As the market reaction has already been hot, counterfeit sales have doubled compared to last year.
The price is also at a similar level.
[Ji Hong-tae/Chief of the Oyster Plantation Association: This year, our fishermen worked hard to grow oysters well, so I think it's very meaningful to have a super sale on today's date...
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The South Coast oysters, which have started harvesting in earnest, are expected to be produced by June next year, and about 14,000 tons will be supplied nationwide.
(Video coverage: Jung Chang-wook KNN)