Atlantic Salmon Lives in Busan... Establishing a Full Life Cycle Aquaculture Production System

Development of Smart Aquaculture Platform and Technology Using Icelandic Fertilized Eggs

Atlantic salmon fertilized eggs.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Atlantic salmon will now live continuously in Busan. A project to manage the entire life cycle of salmon from fertilized eggs to adult fish through aquaculture has started in Busan.

On the 19th, the Busan Fisheries Resources Research Institute announced that it has embarked on research and development to establish a full-cycle aquaculture production system for Atlantic salmon.

For this project, the Fisheries Resources Research Institute imported 40,000 Atlantic salmon fertilized eggs from Iceland on the 16th.

The imported fertilized eggs will be managed in a salmon-specific hatchery after quarantine and customs clearance procedures, and are expected to hatch in 3 to 4 weeks. Intensive aquaculture testing research will be conducted on the fry hatched in a Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) that does not require water exchange.

The Fisheries Resources Research Institute previously conducted preliminary rearing tests on Korean salmon in a small-scale RAS to develop full-cycle aquaculture technology for salmon. Subsequently, an additional 80-ton seawater recirculating aquaculture system facility was constructed.

The results of this research will be applied to the smart aquaculture testbed to be completed in December 2022 in Ilgwang-myeon, Gijang-gun. The salmon aquaculture industry, through the development of a smart aquaculture platform, is expected to become a future seafood industry resource for Busan.

Lee Guk-jin, director of the Busan Fisheries Resources Research Institute, said, “We are focusing on ICT-IoT fisheries technology development so that the salmon aquaculture industry can advance into a convergent smart aquaculture suitable for the Fourth Industrial Revolution era.”

He added, “We plan to concentrate on standardizing salmon aquaculture technology and advancing Atlantic salmon aquaculture technology through AI-based aquaculture research demonstrations.”

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