South Korea: 400,000 young sea cucumbers released on the coast of Gyeongnam

Page 10-Sea cucumber release Contributing to the increase in income of the Gyeongnam Fisheries Research Institute The Institute of Fisheries Research in Gyeongnam Province announced on the 22nd and 23rd that 400,000 young sea cucumbers were released into fishing grounds in front of 13 fishing villages in the province. The Gyeongnam-do Fisheries Research Institute succeeded in localizing the mass production technology of sea cucumber seeds, which had been dependent on Chinese technology, for the first time in Korea in 2006, and transferred the technology to research institutes and private companies in local governments. Based on these achievements, a large-scale seed production facility was completed in 2016, and since then, healthy seeds have been mass-produced and continuously discharged to fishing grounds in front of fishing villages in the province. This year, in March, 100,000 sea cucumbers and 210,000 abalone were released to 10 fishing villages. In addition, we are ...