NIFS held a Giant river prawn harvest event at the Inland Aquaculture Research Center on September 27. People from aquaculture sector, start-ups and aquaculture farmers participated in the event and enjoyed game fishing and food sampling of the prawn.
A symposium and general meeting of the KSMLS was held in NIFS on September 22, with programs of key note speech, special lectures from guest speakers and presentations on marine life science.
NIFS organized and hosted the International Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) symposium at Grand Hotel in Haeundae on September 14, to discuss research status and future direction of IMTA in participating countries.
Participants of the 2017 International Oceans and Fisheries ODA Symposium visited NIFS and had a facility tour.
NIFS working together with the Ocean and Fisheries HRD Institute and Gijanggun Office cleaned Ilgwang beach on August 18.
Acting president of NIFS visited culture farms in Pohang and checked facilities on August 6. He heard voices from fields, met with officials from the local government to check the damages caused by high water temperature and discussed countermeasures against it.
NIFS gave a briefing on its successful development of rapidly growing selective-breeding abalone at the press room of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries on August 3.
NIFS hosted the scientific committee meeting for fisheries resources restoration and enhancement project on July 7.
NIFS co-hosted the internation symposium that celebrats 60th anniversary of Korean distant water fisheries in the Westin Chosun, Busan, on July 29, with a view to reviewing the history of the industry and drawing up measures to further develop it.
