This file photo, provided by the local government of the southeastern county of Wando on Nov. 7, 2020, shows a laver farm.
SUWON, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi provincial government has announced a plan to operate South Korea’s first ‘shared fish farm’ using a breeding tank for freshwater fish at the Gyeonggi-do Marine and Fisheries Resource Research Institute located in Yangpyeong, 55 kilometers east of Seoul.
Just like a shared kitchen designed to incubate restaurant businesses, the shared fish farm will be operated to support the province’s residents with a desire to launch their own inland fish farms by opening publicly-owned fish breeding facilities.
The shared fish farm will be the first of its kind in the country.
To this end, the research institute recently singled out 11 trainees through a public contest for three educational courses with a focus on breeding marsh snails, mandarin fish and oriental weatherfish. It will launch education programs for business incubation from next month.
The trainees will receive theoretical education and field training using the research institute’s breeding facility and tanks. They will be given a chance to experience various aspects of fish farming, including artificial breeding and management of water quality.
If they launch their own business after completing the educational course, the research institute plans to provide a follow-up service for up to three years, including instructions on fish farming techniques.
The research institute operates around sixty fish breeding tanks with a size of about 1,096 square meters, while carrying out a variety of projects, including research on breeding indigenous freshwater fish, the production and distribution of small fry, and the operation of ecological experience centers.
M. H. Lee (mhlee@koreabizwire.com)
