The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced that South Korea succeeded, for the first time in the world, in the production of Alaska Pollack in a completely controlled culture.
 
The ministry said Tuesday that the National Institute of Fisheries Science cultivated a fertilized egg from a wild Pollack into a full-grown fish and among some 100-thousand eggs that the fish laid, roughly 30-thousand were raised to fingerlings.
 
While wild pollacks are able to lay eggs three years after birth, the Pollack cultivated under completely controlled conditions, including water temperature and special assorted feed, laid eggs a year and eight months after birth.
 
With the latest feat, the oceans ministry plans to distribute the technology to the private sector from 2018 and begin providing cultivated Pollack to people starting from 2020.