Distribution of fertilized halibut eggs with genetic diversity secured in South Korea

The Seohae Life Resource Center of the Korea Fisheries Resources Authority (FIRA) recently announced that it has supplied 2.5 million fertilized halibut eggs with genetic diversity to seed producers through the released seed certification system. FIRA's release seed certification business procedure is carried out in a way that distributes fertilized eggs to seed producers, and the company that raised the seeds receives genetic diversity certification from the industrial complex and supplies them to consumers (local governments). The Released Seed Certification System is a system that separates seeds for aquaculture and seeds for release and certifies that healthy wild-like aquatic seeds can be released. As a result of the release of flounder seeds for aquaculture produced by inbreeding at farms for a long time, the certified diversity (PIC) of released seeds dropped to 60.61% at one time. . Since 2016, when the certification system was implemented, more than 200 million certified ...