Succeeded in the world’s first land-based aquaculture of sockeye salmon NTT East, Ichii, Okayama University of Science|電経新聞

Succeeded in the world’s first land-based aquaculture of sockeye salmon NTT East, Ichii, Okayama University of Science

㊧からNTT東日本の澁谷直樹社長、いちいの伊藤信弘社長、岡山理科大学の平野博之学長(From the left, Naoki Shibutani, president of NTT East, Nobuhiro Ito, president of Ichii, and Hiroyuki Hirano, president of Okayama University of Science)

From January 2022, NTT East, Ichii, and Okayama University of Science have been conducting a “demonstration experiment for the commercialization of a completely closed circulation land-based aquaculture.” They have succeeded in land-based sockeye farming for the first time in the world, and are conducting test sales at Ichii stores. At ICHII’S Rocinante MARKET Fukushima Nishi store, they provided raw edible sashimi (fillets and fences) and sushi. Through marketing activities such as sales, they will start considering full-scale commercialization. Sockeye salmon raised in land-based aquaculture in a completely closed circulation system using suitable environmental water generally takes about four years from juvenile to adulthood, but in a year and a half, they grow to a length of about 50 centimeters and a weight of 1.2 kilograms, making it a size that can be shipped and sold.