NIFS announced that it set out demonstration test for the industrialization of small yellow croaker(YC) aquaculture, where NIFS produces 500,000 small YC juveniles and distributes them to the land-based aquafarms in Jeju Island to demonstrate the whole process from seed production, through rearing, to distribution. 

The president of NIFS Choi Yong Seok said, “The demonstration test will serve as a foundation for the introduction of new high value-added varieties to Jeju aquaculture industry which suffers issues like productivity reduction. Going forward, NIFS will actively work with private sectors through research cooperation so that Jeju is well entrenched as a hub for small yellow croaker aquaculture.”