The Department of Fisheries promotes high-value products and supports black mullet farming in Thailand

Mr. Bancha Sukkaew, Director-General of the Department of Fisheries, said that “promoting high-value agricultural products” that focuses on promoting and developing local identity agricultural products to increase value and develop high-value fisheries products or products is a main policy of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives with the goal of increasing Thai agriculture’s income by 3 times within 4 years and developing into the world’s center of agriculture and food. “Black mullet” is a sea fish with the potential to be developed into a high-value economic aquatic animal because it is a white fish with good taste and is popularly consumed in a variety of menus. It does not take long to grow to the size that the market wants and sells at a good price. In addition, the Coastal Aquatic Technology and Innovation Research and Development Center, Songkhla Province, has begun studying and developing techniques for breeding black mullet along with developing continuous parent ...