The achievements of Haishitong Barramundi won the Scientific Progress Award of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences

Author: Yvonne Published: 2021-3-30

The achievement of "All-weather breeding and land-sea multi-mode breeding and demonstration of barramundi" completed by Guangxi Haishitong Food Co., Ltd. and South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute won the third level of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences in 2020. With the continuous development of the barramundi industry nationwide, as well as the in-depth research on the results of barramundi breeding.

With the aim of "providing high-quality marine protein", the company consolidates the spirit of corporate innovation, and continuously implements innovations in high-quality varieties and ecological models. Around 2018, it has successively carried out research on barramundi related technologies, and completed the artificial breeding technology of barramundi species. Brunei has established a relatively complete germplasm bank for barramundi. The company produces more than 2 million barramundi seedlings every year, and cultivates commercial fish for local sales in Brunei, and exports to the United States and the Middle East.

Barramundi is large, fast-growing, and delicious. It is one of the high-end seafood fish. This fish has a short breeding period and a wide range of suitable salt. It is one of the most important farmed fishes in Southeast Asian countries and regions such as Thailand.