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Flatfish fry, which was 7 to 8 cm in size when they entered the fish farm, weigh about 2 kg when they grow in about a year. At a fish farm in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, employees enter a large tank to catch farmed flatfish to be sent to land. ☞Subscribe to the Hankyoreh 21 Newsletter ‘Something 21’ https://url.kr/svmp2y Eastern Europe When gunfire goes off in Ukraine, the amount of feed eaten by flounders on Jeju Island decreases. It's a cliche story, but when oil prices soar, things that were previously unimaginable happen. To see how the recent price rise affects the production and consumption of the ‘sashimi’ we enjoy, we followed them from a fish farm in Jeju to a sushi restaurant in Seoul. According to the ‘Consumer Price Trend in June’ released by Statistics Korea on July 5, 2022, the price of food services rose by 8%, the largest increase since October 1992 (8.8%). Sashimi rose 10.4%. Fish farms are affected by cost of living, electricity, labor, and transportation “East of Jeju is the best place to grow flatfish. Water is good.” If you follow the coastal road in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju, you will see several black vinyl houses. I think it's a farming place, but it's a place where flatfish grow. They are fish farms that supply flatfish to large marts such as E-Mart. On July 1, 2022, I visited the ‘happy flatfish’ fish farm in Pyoseon-myeon, Jeju. Ki-soo Oh, CEO of ‘Happy Flatfish’, led the reporter to the high-water tank at the fish farm. In the elevated tank, water from the sea 300m from the shore and from the fish farm 70m below the ground was gushing out, creating white splashes. The salty water, which is a mixture of seawater and underground seawater, circulates water in 60 tanks in the fish farm and then goes back to the sea. Since 14,400 tons of water had to be pumped up per day, six pumps were running non-stop. On July 1, 2022, workers enter a tank at ‘Jeongwoo Fishery’, a flounder fish farm in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, select flounder to send to a large mart, and put them in a white basket.