Highest damage to aquaculture in coastal waters of South Korea

This summer, the scale of damage to the aquaculture industry is expected to be the largest ever due to the unprecedented high water temperature phenomenon. According to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, as of September 20, the scale of aquaculture farm deaths was calculated to be 44 million fish and about 4,000 lines of sea squirts (1 line is about 142,000 fish). The exact scale of damage will be confirmed later, but based on the total deaths so far, the damage is expected to be the largest ever. The trend of high water temperatures along the coast of Korea has been predicted to cause damage to aquaculture organisms due to changes in the aquaculture environment and abnormal water temperatures since the mid-2010s, along with global warming. The uncertainty of the aquaculture industry due to rising seawater temperatures is an unavoidable reality. The total damage to aquaculture due to natural disasters over the past 13 years (2011-2023) was 326 billion won, of which 194.1 ...