South Korea: One additional oyster spawning ground was created in the Namhae Peak Sea area
Fresh Oyster
South Korea
Published Jun 21, 2022
Tridge summary
The National Academy of Fisheries Science announced on the 14th that it had recently established spawning grounds for mother oysters in six sea areas along the southern coast in order to secure stable oyster seeds in cooperation with the Oyster Underwater Fisheries Industry Cooperative and oyster farmers.
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Recently, fishermen in the southern coast are having a lot of difficulty in securing seeds due to phenomena such as delayed maturation of mother oysters or not spawning all at once. Since 2019, the orchard has built a spawning ground by placing oysters and healthy mother oysters in a chaerong net or spraying them on the bottom, depending on the characteristics of each area of the southern coast. Also, in order to increase the amount of oyster seeds secured this year, the number of spawning grounds, which had been 5 until last year, was added to the Bongu area of Namhae-gun. Prior to the oyster spawning site construction project, seeds were secured through several seeding operations, but with the implementation of the spawning field construction project over the ...
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