A Comparative Study on Japanese and Korean Aquaculture-5

Since around the mid-1960s, aquaculture in Korea has been developed drastically. However, the main aquaculture has been shellfish and seaweeds, and the production of fish farming had been negligible. It was not until the beginning of the 1980s that the fish farming in Korea began developing. Since then, most of the consumers preferred to the high-valued raw fish according to the rapid increase of income. The change of the patterns of fish consumption motivated a rapid development of the fish mariculture. Now, the fish mariculture is popular with a large market demand. The main fishes produced by the fish mariculture are red sea bream, rock fish, yellowtail, Japanese flounder, and sea bass. Among them, the yellowtail is a major part of the fish mariculture. Recently, the fish mariculture has confronted with some difficulties such as a sudden rise of wages and the cost of feeds, and the sharp drop in the price of the fish occurred by the imported live fish. Especially, the red sea bream imported from Japan weakened greatly the Korean fish mariculture. As a conclusion, the outlook of Korean fish mariculture is not so bright