South Korea: Gyeonggi-do Maritime and Fisheries Resources Research Institute, releasing young smelt

The Gyeonggi Provincial Research Institute of Marine and Fisheries Resources recently announced that it had released 1.4 million smelt fish, around 0.5 cm in size, within about a week after hatching, to Namyang Lake, Pyeongtaek Lake, and Lake Tando. This is to restore native fish stocks and increase fishermen's income. An official from the Gyeonggi-do Maritime and Fisheries Resources Research Institute said, “We have been carrying out a smelt fertilized egg release business for the purpose of resource creation since the 1990s.” changed,” he explained. The young smelt released this time was fertilized from a healthy mother selected directly from Lake Soyang last March and raised in a breeding area in the Gyeonggi-do Marine and Fisheries Resources Research Institute. In the case of smelt incubation fish, it takes about 20 to 30 days from fertilized egg to hatch in natural conditions (water temperature 8 to 10 ℃), but if the water temperature is maintained at 12 to 13 ℃ using a ...