Wando-gun, Coastal Sea Ranch Development Project Progressing Smoothly

5 Billion Invested... Contributing to Income Increase through Release of Cockle Seedlings and Manila Clam Seedlings

Wando County is carrying out a coastal sea ranch creation project. (Photo by Wando County)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil] Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do announced on the 22nd that the ‘Coastal Sea Ranch Creation Project’ aimed at protecting shellfish resources and increasing fishermen's income is progressing smoothly in the local coastal fishing grounds where resource quantities are decreasing due to changes in fishing ground environments.

The ‘Coastal Sea Ranch Creation Project’ is a five-year initiative from 2018 to 2022 with an investment of 5 billion KRW. It is being promoted to contribute to the recovery of marine resources and the increase of fishermen's income by providing habitats for aquatic organisms and systematic management, considering the characteristics of the sea area.

The project site is from Wondong-ri to Daechang 2-ri in the eastern area of Gunoe-myeon, covering approximately 147 hectares.

Over the past three years, the county has spent 3 billion KRW on purchasing and dispersing cockle spat and Manila clam seed, spreading and tilling sand in planned complex sites, improving the environment, assessing resource quantities, and conducting environmental surveys.

This year, the fourth year of the project, activities will include releasing cockle juveniles and Manila clam seed, spreading and tilling sand to improve habitat conditions, implementing fisherman-participatory projects, and conducting effectiveness surveys.

Deputy Governor Bong Jin-moon stated, “Through the Coastal Sea Ranch Creation Project, we will do our best to create stable fisheries income by resource recovery and systematic fishing ground management, and to develop it into a sixth industry linked with tourist destinations.”

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