Recovering high value-added shrimp resources in South Korea

South Jeolla Province has begun to recover resources for barley prawns, a high value-added fish species. The Jeonnam Provincial Institute of Maritime Science and Fisheries announced on the 16th that it had released 500,000 prawn seeds, a high-income variety of barley prawns from coastal tidal flats, into Sonbul-myeon, Hampyeong, in the presence of Jeonnam Provincial Council member Mo Jeong-hwan, officials from Hampyeong-gun, and fishermen. The prawn seeds released this time received eggs from the mothers secured last October and were managed for about 40 days after hatching, and the average size is more than 1.2cm. The prawn is a sedentary fish that does not move far from the coast after being released, and the release effect is very high. Currently, domestic shrimp production is dependent on natural production, and production in Jeollanam-do is on a continuous decline from 59 tons in 2016 to 12 tons in 2021, so resource recovery is urgently needed. The Jeonnam Provincial ...