Japan: Large-Scale RAS Salmon Facilities Planned One After Another
"All the players are here. The Salmon Warring States period has arrived." Minato Shimbun reported that Japanese aquaculture operators do not hide their excitement over the successive plans for large-scale facilities.
Japanese fish farm businesses used to mainly produce trout. Still, Mitsubishi Corporation and Maruha Nichiro launched "Atland Corporation" in October 2022 to produce Atlantic salmon in a land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS). The farm will staoperation in Nyuzen-Cho, Toyama Prefecture, aiming to begin shipments in 2027 and achieve an annual production of 2,500 tons...
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