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Seaweed Research Institute

National Institute of Fisheries Science
  • Research on Seaweed conservation and management technology development
  • Development of Seaweed breeding and aquaculture technology
  • Research on the development and industrialization of new seaweed varieties
  • Inspection and investigation of Seaweed to foster the Seaweed industry
  • Operation of aquatic plant deposit registration and preservation institution
2000s
  • 2023. 08. 01
    Reorganized into Seaweed Research Institute
  • 2021. 01. 01
    Reorganized into Fisheries Seed and Breeding Research Institute (newly established)Fisheries Genetics and Breeding Research Center organized under Fisheries Seed and Breeding Research Institute
  • 2018. 04. 03
    Relocated the Seaweed Research Center (Mokpo-si, Jeonnam → Haenam-gun, Jeonnam) and opened a new building
  • 2017. 02. 28
    Renamed the Seaweed Research Center of the South Sea Fisheries Research Institute
  • 2015. 10. 16
    Reorganized into Seaweed Research Center of South Sea Fisheries Research Institute
  • 2010. 02. 26
    Reorganized into Seaweed Bio Research Center of the Strategic Aquaculture Research Center
  • 2009. 04. 30
    Reorganized into Seaweed Bio Research Institute
  • 2004. 02. 02
    Reorganized as South Sea Fisheries Research Institute Seaweed Research Center (new establishment)
  • 2002. 03. 02.
    Renamed the Mokpo Branch of the South Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the National Institute of Fisheries Science
1900s
  • 1995. 04. 12
    Establishment of South Sea Fisheries Research Institute Mokpo Branch
  • 1993. 02. 10
    Incorporated into South Sea Fisheries Research Institute (Namsan-dong, Yeosu-si, Jeonnam)
  • 1985. 04. 26
    Renamed Mokpo Fisheries Research Institute
  • 1971. 08. 13
    Reorganized into Mokpo Branch
  • 1963. 12. 17
    Reorganized into Southern Sea Laboratory of National Fisheries Promotion Agency
  • 1962. 05. 10
    Central Fisheries Experiment Station reorganized into Southern Sea Branch
  • 1949. 11. 10
    Establishment of Central Fisheries Experiment Station Mokpo Branch
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