South Korea: Developed as a source of income for sea urchins left in the green lagoon

On the 17th, the Jeju Provincial Maritime Research Institute and the Aewol Agricultural Cooperatives signed a business agreement for joint research on the industrialization of sea urchin resources in the sea urchins at the Jeju Provincial Assembly in the small meeting room on the first floor. The agreement, which was concluded with the support of the Jeju Provincial Assembly's Agriculture, Consumption and Economy Committee, was made to promote mutual cooperation in order to increase the income of village fishing grounds using non-commodity sea urchins that inhabit the gaetgreen fishing grounds. As a result of test-culture of sea urchins left in the green fishery of Jeju Island, the Jeju Research Institute of Oceans and Fisheries found that the gonadal weight index (gonad weight ratio per body weight) of sea urchins fed cabbage leaves for about 100 days was about 11.5%, which is the gonadal weight of wild sea urchins. It was confirmed that the index showed a similar trend to 13.5%. ...