Guangdong Evergreen is partnering the Nansha Modern Agriculture Industry Group on a major aquaculture project.
The Nansha Modern Agriculture Industry Group, based in Guangzhou, will mainly work on the breeding of sea bass, snakehead, and catfish at the site in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, China, while Evergreen will rent land from the Nansha group to focus on “the protection and development of more than 10 fresh or salty-fresh fish seedlings,” including Roche marsh shrimp and tiger shrimp (Metapenaeus ensis), Guangdong Evergreen Director of International Sales Maria Hua told SeafoodSource.
“Evergreen Group is an open company with international development strategy. Any cooperation that can provide quality, safe, healthy aquatic products will promote and discuss win-win results,” Hua said.
Evergreen is located in Zhangjiang in Guangdong, a center of Chinese aquaculture output, which has been squeezed recently by stricter enforcement of environmental regulations. Hua confirmed China's environmental protection strategy has shut down some aquaculture facilities in lakes, reservoirs, and rivers in the province, but said her company wasn’t worried about the crackdown.
“Our project pays attention to ecological and environmental protection, and we do a good job of aquaculture waste-water treatment, recycling,”Hua said. “It is a project not impacted by regulations on environmental protection.”
The restrictions have resulted in a tightening of supply of some fish products, but the recent enforcement is “also in line with the strategic direction of the development of modern fishery, for the development of China's aquaculture, especially the development of modern facilities fishery,” she said.
Hua said the environmental regulation was one of several factors that have led tohigher Chinese seafood prices.
“The impact of the epidemic, rising costs of feed raw materials, reduced imports, [and] the discharge of nuclear wastewater in Japan also has a psychological impact,” she said.
Photo courtesy of Global Aquaculture Association
