First successful artificial spawning with domestic salmon

A green light has been given for domestic salmon farming. The Gyeongbuk Marine Resources Research Institute has succeeded for the first time in artificial spawning, a key technology to replace imported salmon with domestically farmed salmon. According to Gyeongbuk on November 26, domestic salmon is a species that migrates to Korean rivers for spawning, and is different from imported farmed Atlantic salmon, which is commonly distributed as sashimi, sushi, and grilled salmon. Recently, as salmon consumption has surged, the country imports over 40,000 tons of Norwegian Atlantic salmon annually. Research has been ongoing at domestic research institutions and some private fish farms to replace imported salmon with domestically farmed salmon, but there was a problem in that fertilized eggs of Atlantic salmon, which cannot reproduce, had to be continuously imported. The Gyeongbuk Marine Resources Research Institute aimed for the industrialization of salmon farming and started raising ...