Some of the river fish Amego go down to the sea and grow into Satsukimasu, which is eaten as salmon. Tokushima Prefecture cultivates Amego produced in the prefecture in live fish in the sea and sells it as salmon, making it a new specialty product. I started trying to.
The amego to be farmed has been acclimatized to seawater for two weeks since last month, and about 2,000 of them were transported to Awata fishing port in Naruto City on the 7th and transferred to live cages in the sea.
The amego grows to about 30 centimeters in length, and while the color is changing from black to silver like Satsukimasu, they aim to ship it as salmon around May.
Mr. Shuhei Matsushita, a fish farmer, said, "It's exciting to farm new fish. I want to raise delicious salmon while paying attention to how to feed it."
Takuya Yoshioka, Chief of the Prefectural Fisheries Promotion Division, said, "We are making good progress, so we will continue trial and error to see if we can make good salmon in cooperation with fishermen, and aim for branding."