Wholesale abalone, wholesale abalone, what can we say about wholesale abalone? That it could make you rich? That it supports entire regions in Australia, Chile, Tasmania, and Japan? How about that the market is measured in the billions of dollars in both China and Japan? It is an industry that is making a lot of people very rich all over the world, and will only continue to grow over the next decade, with many markets growing, and new one popping up regularly.
The way to understand this phenomenon is to at first realize that the abalone has been here for 175,000,000 years. It was here before most anything that we can possibly think of. Wholesale abalone prices wouldn’t be so high if the demand worldwide was not so huge. It is the individual price at the retail level that drives the wholesale market. If people did not have such a deep-seated and historical drive to consume it, the wholesale abalone market would not be what it is today.