South Korea: In two years, 20,000 tons of Gangwon-do farmed salmon will be produced

Atlantic salmon growing at the Hanhaeseong Fisheries Resource Center located in Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do. This January, the center secured aquaculture technology and succeeded in mass producing Atlantic salmon eight years after starting research. Atlantic salmon are growing prosperously at the ‘Gangwon-do Hanhaeseong Fisheries Resource Center’ in Jukwang-myeon, Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do, which is at the forefront of ‘salmon industrialization’. This is the result of Hanhae-seong Fisheries Resource Center and Inland Water Resources Center succeeding in mass production for the first time in Korea in January of this year. Gangwon-do has begun securing Atlantic salmon farming technology since 2015. This is based on the fact that the added value effect is large and the global salmon market is rapidly expanding. Moreover, the domestic salmon market was entirely dependent on imports. As the public's preference for salmon increased, domestic salmon imports increased 38 times from 2,000 tons ...