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Salmon is one of the commonly-consumed fish in South Korea.
Generally, the fish is imported live from Norway, or frozen from places like Chile.
But now South Korea is finding success breeding salmon in the peninsula's coldest waters.
Lee Eun-jin reports.
Each tank is full of young Atlantic salmon.
The fertilized eggs were brought in from Norway to Korea in October of last year.
Once hatched, nine out of ten grow without dying.
Raised in fresh water at 13 degrees Celsius, the salmon have grown to about 20 centimeters in length after one year.
At this point, the young salmon are moved to a research center off the coast of Goseong in Gangwon-do Province.
This is where the salmon get ready to move from living in freshwater to the saltwater of the open ocean a stage of a salmon life cycle when they are called smolts.
The Atlantic salmon is still identified as an unverified "environmental hazard" to our oceans, which restricts them from being raised in the open sea.
That's why Gangwon-do Province has secured several related patents for salmon farming and aims to cultivate Atlantic salmon in its controlled farming environment.
The goal is to make a system where the salmon farmers deliver hatched young fish to inland fishfarmers who already raise similar fish like trout. These salmon are then supplied to private fish companies.
"Salmon is a cold-water fish species, which makes them the most suitable breed for the cold Gangwon-do waters."
The cold eastern sea of Gangwon-do Province has long been a barren spot for marine farming,
but now attention is on whether it can become the center of salmon farming in Asia.
Lee Eunjin, Arirang News.
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2022-12-20, 11:00 (KST)
