South Korea: On-site communication to resolve current issues related to flounder farming

The National Institute of Fisheries Science announced on the 2nd that it held an ‘on-site discussion on response to mortality in flatfish farming’ in Jeju with local governments, academia, fisheries cooperatives, and aquaculture fishermen. This on-site discussion was prepared to accurately diagnose the mortality problem, which is the main cause of the decline in flounder farming productivity, and to discover field research tasks to solve it. Since 1981, the Aquarium has promoted flounder farming research and has continuously worked to develop the aquaculture industry by distributing seed production technology to the field, contributing to the establishment of flounder as a representative aquaculture species, accounting for about 50% of Korea's fish farming production. . Recently, research has been conducted on breeding varieties (rapid growth, disease resistance), development of disease treatments, and circulating filtration culture to increase the productivity of flounder ...