South Korea: FIRA established an octopus complex in Gamak Bay, Yeosu
Frozen Octopus
South Korea
Published Sep 12, 2022
Tridge summary
The South Division of the Korea Fisheries Resources Agency (FIRA) installed about 80 nesting octopuses containing octopus eggs in the Gamak Bay waters of Singi-ri, Dolsan-eup, Yeosu-si, Jeollanam-do, on the 1st. The incubated octopus complex is a complex where mother octopus lays eggs and protects them. Only 87,000 eggs are protected per one. The 80 complexes installed this time contain about 6.96 million octopus eggs. Currently, there is no technology for producing octopus seeds larger than 1 cm in size in Korea, so it is difficult to create large-scale resources for octopus. The Korea Fisheries Resources Agency will install an incubated octopus complex that can increase the survival rate by protecting the eggs laid by the mother octopus as a pilot project from this year. The South Division of the Korea Fisheries Resources Service expects that 1% of the 6.96 million released octopus eggs, or 69,500, will grow into adults. This is 11.6% of the total production of octopus in Yeosu, and is expected to have an economic ripple effect of 1.32 billion won.
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Meanwhile, the Southern Headquarters is promoting a project to create a nest for octopus spawning with a budget of 5 billion won for five years from last year to 2025 in order to ...
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