The next Port Chalmers Seafood Festival is likely to be held in September next year, after its organising committee decided it was too hard to hold the event each year.
"We are more concerned with making sure we have a quality event ... rather than a slightly rushed one," organising committee chairwoman Chanel Gardner said.
Last year's inaugural festival, held in the wharf area, attracted thousands of people to the town.
It was initially suggested the festival be held annually, but following last year's event the volunteer organising committee decided against it.
"At the end of the day, we are a volunteer committee and it was incredibly hard work for us to do the first one. People were going to quit the committee if they had to do that every year."
Port Otago, which allowed the festival to be staged on its land, also supported the event being held every second year, mainly to ensure its sustainability and to maintain its vitality.
The date for the festival would be announced in October.
"We are more than capable of catering for a bigger event and the depth of entertainment, and stalls will be a lot more vast now that we've got the first one under our belt," she said.
In the meantime, she was going to keep the festival's "exciting points of difference", up her sleeve.
