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Where is the largest salmon farming area in China? What are the salmon farming bases?

The main production areas of salmon are in high latitudes such as Japan, Russia, Norway, the United States and Canada. The main production areas of salmon in China are in the Heilongjiang River, the Wusuli River and the upper reaches of the Songhua River. Currently, the largest salmon farm in China is in the Longyangxia Reservoir in Gonghe County, Qinghai Province.

Qinghai Province is China's largest freshwater salmon farming base, with one out of every three salmon in the country coming from Qinghai. Qinghai is known as the "Water Tower of China" and has abundant and sufficient cold water resources. The reservoirs of many large and medium-sized hydropower stations in the 300-kilometer section of the Yellow River from Longyangxia to Jishixia in the province are recognized as one of the regions with the best conditions for salmon farming in cages at home and abroad because of their clean water, excellent water quality, and water temperature ranging from 2 degrees Celsius to 22 degrees Celsius, which never freezes all year round.

It is understood that in 2021, the number of farmers (enterprises) engaged in salmon and trout cage farming along the Yellow River in the province has grown to 27, with a cage farming area of ​​32.6 hectares. High-quality, pollution-free cold-water fish produced in Qinghai, represented by salmon, rainbow trout and golden trout, are sold well outside the province. Last year, 1,600 tons of salmon were exported to Russia.

Salmon farming conditions: clear and clean water source, lower water temperature, reasonable feeding and reasonable release of fry.

Niuguwan Ecological Breeding Area

Niuguwan Ecological Breeding Area was established in 2014 and is affiliated to Donghai Niuguwan Ecological Breeding Co., Ltd. of Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone. It is located at the westernmost end of the beautiful Donghai Island in Zhanjiang. It is a famous marine aquaculture base featuring ecological aquaculture.

Niuguwan, adjacent to the Longshuiling volcanic cone, is rich in minerals and groundwater and is also a well-known high-quality marine aquaculture base. In terms of aquaculture scale, Niuguwan is expanding day by day. As of 2017, there are 64 standard high-level ponds and 3 large-scale fish ponds. The aquaculture area can now produce 3 million catties of shrimp (South American white shrimp, sand shrimp, tiger prawn, Japanese flower shrimp) and 1 million catties of fish (mainly golden pomfret, grouper, tench) every year, and process more than 2 million catties of various high-end dried seafood.

Qinghai Minze Longyangxia Ecological Aquaculture Co., Ltd.

As an important part of the agricultural industry strategic layout of China's Fortune 500 company Dun'an Holding Group, it is a technologically modern agricultural enterprise specializing in the green breeding, processing and sales of high-end cold-water fish (salmon and trout). Relying on the rich water resources of Longyangxia to build an aquaculture pattern, the entire industry chain integrating breeding, farming, production, processing and sales has begun to take shape, forming an annual production capacity of more than 10,000 tons of salmon, and has now become the largest and highest-yielding salmon and trout breeding company in Asia.