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Popular as
smoked and sushi, salmon is an Atlantic variety imported mainly from Norway and elsewhere. Consumption is increasing, and in the next three years, we will be able to taste domestically farmed Atlantic salmon.

Reporter Cho Jae-geun visited the aquaculture site.

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Fish swim fast in the
breeding tank.

It is an Atlantic salmon native to the North Atlantic, a different species from the North Pacific salmon that returns to domestic rivers in the fall.

After importing eggs from Europe, hatching them, and raising them for 3 years and 2 months, they grew to a weight of about 6 kg, making them perfect for smoking and sushi.

Another nearby tank also hosts thousands of young Atlantic salmon that have hatched one year old.

Thanks to Gangwon Province's self-developed salmon farming technology, the hatchability rate is close to 3%, and the net rate of adapting young salmon from freshwater to seawater is 1%.

[Park Sung-o/Head of Fish Team, Hanhaesung Fisheries Resource Center, Gangwon-do: We have technology that adapts from freshwater to seawater, and we have such technology that we grow up to 100~97kg in commodity size. We see a survival rate of about 4% from egg to product size.]

In the Yangyang area, a large-scale land-based aquaculture complex will also be built with private investment.

It draws cold seawater from a depth of 5 meters and is below 75 degrees Celsius all year round and raises it in a large tank, and you can taste domestically raised Atlantic salmon as early as three years later.

[Jeong Seon-hong/Head of Salmon Aquaculture Business Team, Gangwon-do East Sea Headquarters: We can grow it for about 150 years and reach the market size, and we are aiming to complete all facilities by 10 years and produce ten thousand tons from 3 years and 3,24 tons by 26 years.]

Last year, 30,10 tons of Atlantic salmon were imported, a five-fold jump from a decade ago.

Mass farming of Atlantic salmon will not only have an import substitution effect, but it will also be possible to export it to China and Southeast Asia.

(Video Interview: He Chun)