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China to build 300 mobile offshore fisheries
By:Zheng Qian  |  From:english.eastday.com  |  2019-12-04 14:37

China is expected to build 300 mobile offshore fisheries with each having an annual output of 20,000 tons of high-quality seafood, announced the 20th Marintec China, one of the world's largest and most influential maritime exhibitions, held in Shanghai from Dec 3 to 6.

The 20th Marintec China is held in Shanghai. [Photo/ thepaper.cn]

Currently, the China Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering Design and Research Institute in Shanghai is leading the planning of the mobile offshore fishery project, and is preparing to tackle key research difficulties of deep sea breeding and processing vessels.

Tong Bo, a senior engineer of the institute explained that the so-called “mobile offshore fishery” refers to a deep sea breeding industry chain including parent fish cultivation, juvenile fish feeding, adult fish farming, processing and sales. Each fishery needs a sea area of 3-10 square kilometers. Every five fisheries form a large mobile fishery group within which each fishery is 10-15 kilometers away.

On the offshore fishery, the deep sea breeding and processing vessel is of most advanced technology. Integrating the functions of breeding, replenishment, processing, storage, and transfer of high-quality and value-added fish species, the vessel adopts closed circulating water for fish farming for the first time. The comprehensive management and control system can effectively isolate foreign pathogens to protect the breeding system. And the ability of self-navigation enables it to quickly avoid severe sea conditions such as typhoons.

Shen Lan, China’s first vessel for fishing Antarctic krill, which was designed by the institute and is to be delivered at the end of this year, is such a kind of vessel. Equipped with shrimp freezing and meat and powder processing lines, it can work in Antarctic waters for krill production when completed.

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