Chungnam, Research Project to Expand New Ark Shell Farms 추진

[Asia Economy (Hongseong) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Chungnam Provincial Fisheries Resources Research Institute is promoting a research project to discover new ark shell fishing grounds and restore existing ones.

On the 19th, the Provincial Fisheries Resources Research Institute announced that its ‘Ark Shell Fishing Ground Restoration Technology Development Research’ was selected as a new project under the National Institute of Fisheries Science’s autonomous research fishing ground program.

The institute aims to establish resource creation procedures to increase the ark shell fishing ground resources and will invest 300 million KRW over three years starting next year (70% national funds, 30% provincial funds).

The detailed research tasks include ▲analysis of environmental adaptation ranges by ark shell growth stages and investigation of habitat fishing ground environments ▲development of fishing ground restoration technology through resource creation in idle ark shell aquaculture fishing grounds ▲development of fishing ground expansion technology by creating ark shell resources of appropriate size.

The institute expects that once the ideal resource creation size and effective resource creation methods according to fishing ground environments are established, it will be possible to select and restore new ark shell fishing grounds that can be developed according to the local coastal environment.

Previously, from 2016 to 2019, the institute conducted research on ‘Development of Artificial Seed Production Technology for Ark Shells’ for resource creation, successfully creating about 1.3 million juvenile ark shell resources from 2019 to this year.

Also, from 2020 to this year, through research on ‘Development of Aquaculture Technology for Mass Production of Ark Shells in Cheonsuman Bay,’ they developed technology to cultivate ark shells in land-based tank aquaculture farms.

A representative of the Provincial Fisheries Resources Research Institute said, “Based on past research results, we will restore existing ark shell fishing grounds and succeed in new fishing ground development research to maximize resource creation effects. In addition to ark shells, the province will also steadily promote research fishing ground projects in fields such as the application of biofloc technology to eel and grass carp aquaculture.”

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