China harvests the first cohort of salmon from submersible pens
Fresh Whole Atlantic Salmon
China
Published Jun 18, 2022
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China has announced its first successful harvest of 15,000 self-bred Atlantic salmon that were raised in a fully submersible net pen.
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Local news reports say that China harvested the fish between 22 May and 9 June. "This is China's first successful large-scale farming of Atlantic salmons in warm waters," said Guo Peng, chief agronomist of the agriculture and rural affairs department of east China's Shandong Province. The deep-water harvest also marks China’s strategic shift towards marine food security. China’s first submersible deep-sea fish farm is named “Deep Blue Number-1” and is located 130 nautical miles from the coast of the Yellow Sea. As the harvesting began, a thick tube was inserted into the net cage of Deep Blue Number-1, and one Atlantic salmon after another were inhaled from the sea into the vessel. "Unlike the netting operation in a traditional fisher, this particular salmon processing vessel uses a special pump to catch the fish," said Li Hong, vice chairwoman of Shandong Far-sea Aquaculture Company The fish underwent initial processing on the vessel and were packed into insulated boxes to keep ...
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