Go Fish: China to Deliver World's First Salmon-Farming Ship, Modernizing Fisheries
China is building the world’s first ship dedicated to salmon farming, and it is set to be delivered in June, in a sign of the country’s latest efforts to reduce its reliance on imported seafood through offshore aquaculture.
The nearly 250-metre (820-foot) Su Hai No 1 vessel, built by Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard in Guangzhou at a cost of 600 million yuan (US$83.6 million), is expected to produce up to 8,000 tonnes of salmon annually, according to the shipowner, Jiangsu Lianshen Marine Technology...
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