BluGen to open 1,000 tonne olive flounder RAS in South Korea

BluGen to open 1,000 tonne olive flounder RAS in South Korea

Source: The Fish Site

11/30/2022

BluGen to open 1,000 tonne olive flounder RAS in South Korea

Credit: BluGen

BluGen, an established genomics and precision-breeding aquaculture company, aims to start production of olive flounder (aka hirame) next year, and is in the process of building South Korea’s first RAS facility.

Construction of the 676,000 square feet facility in Goheung, South Korea began in 2021 and is currently 60 percent complete. The RAS facility will include:

A hatchery and nursery with the capacity to produce up to 80 million juveniles per year – both for ongrowing themselves and for selling to third parties.
Grow-out raceways capable of producing 1,000 tonnes of market sized fish a year