China’s latest attempt to produce its own salmon is coming to fruition in Dongying, in Shandong Province, a city better known for its oil processing industry.
An indoor, land-based coho salmon farm set up by Shandong Lan Hai Aquaculture Co. in the outskirts of the city is bringing seedlings and finished fish to market this spring, having imported the larvae from Canada. The company is a unit of the much larger Lan Hai conglomerate, which has interests in real estate and hotels as well as food and beverage, décor and “modern agriculture.”
The project, which claims to be China’s first indoor salmon breeding venture, is located at the government-funded Yellow River Delta Agriculture Advanced New Science and Technology Demonstration Park. However, another prominent firm in the region, Shandong Oriental Ocean, has also been producing Atlantic salmon for sale in local retailers.
Shandong Lan Hai Aquaculture’s coho salmon take 18 months to get to full maturity, according to Lan Hai advertorials on Shandong TV, the provincial channel.
