China building its first factory fish-farming ship and will deploy it to disputed Spratley Islands
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [ECNS] September 25, 2014
Plans for the construction of China's first factory fish-farming ship at the Nansha islands are underway, the China Science Daily has reported.
The converted oil tanker could weigh as much as 200,000 tons, and will function as a multi-purpose mobile offshore production base, according to Lei Jilin, a researcher at the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute.
Lei said the initial plan is to deploy the factory ship at Mischief Reef, one of China's major fishing bases in the southernmost area...
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