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Korea
DPRK: Thanks For All The Fish
2003-12-10
Artificial breeding of salmons has proved successful in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The East Sea Fishery Institute under the Branch Academy of Fishery Science built an artificial salmon hatchery in Puryong County, North Hamgyong Province a few years ago. The researchers of the institute have made researches into artificial hatching of salmons and introduced their success into practice. In November alone, about 40,000 pinks were hatched. Their success makes it possible to breed salmons in sea and river.
And the rest of the world has been doing this for how many decades?
According to Han Kab Du, a section chief of the institute, hundreds of thousands of pinks would be let to go to the sea in the near future and the institute would introduce its success in different parts on the east coast.
In other news, several thousand NK salmon applied for asylum in Alaska, developing..
Posted by:Steve

#5  The trick is to keep the fish secure in their pens so they can grow to full size and not be snatched and eaten prematurely, gollum style. We do not like farmed fish in Alaska. We like them free ranging, until they get their asses caught in a net, or wind up in a basket off a fish wheel on the Yukon, flopping around and saying, "WTF! Where'd the friggin' river go!"
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-12-10 10:37:33 PM  

#4  Wow! If they keep this up (giant gerbils, wabbits, roe deer, salmon, etc.) Dear Leader will soon be announcing he's invented dinner!
Posted by: ,com   2003-12-10 1:10:47 PM  

#3  Journalists hailed the artificially-bred salmon as a welcome addition to Emperor MidgetElvis' private fishing lake.
Posted by: BH   2003-12-10 12:57:51 PM  

#2  about 40,000 pinks were hatched

In the DPRK = Good Eating Size!

Posted by: Shipman   2003-12-10 12:53:48 PM  

#1  What do these fish eat, flat stones grass and tree bark?
Posted by: Raj   2003-12-10 12:52:10 PM  

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