South Korea’s first successful ‘artificial hatching of Hanchi’

Gyeongbuk Provincial Fisheries Resources Research Institute succeeded in hatching fertilized eggs by inducing spawning by raising arrow-shaped squid, widely known as 'Hanchi', in an indoor land-based tank. This is the first time in Korea that artificial hatching of Hanchi was successful. This success is significant in that it takes the first step in producing artificial squid seeds and researching reproductive ecology for the creation of fisheries resources. Artificial hatching of cuttlefish was promoted as part of research to preserve squid resources on the East Coast. The Gyeongbuk Provincial Fisheries Resources Research Institute purchased 300 cuttlefish with a body length of about 24 cm, caught by line fishing at Hupo Port, Uljin-gun in November last year, and raised them in a land-based tank for two months to identify the appropriate breeding environment and food organisms. In addition, their reproductive ecological habits were revealed, such as inducing female and male ...