Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 5 (Reporter Wang Libin) In the first quarter of this year, the national marine aquatic product production increased by 4.5% year-on-year, and my country's "blue grain" construction continued to advance.
The Ministry of Natural Resources released the marine economic development data for the first quarter of 2025, showing that my country's marine food and water resources supply foundation has been further consolidated, and the construction of "blue granary" continues to be promoted. According to preliminary calculations, the national marine aquatic product output in the first quarter increased by 4.5% year-on-year, of which the output of seawater aquaculture increased by 5.7% year-on-year, and the role of seawater aquaculture in stabilizing production and ensuring supply continued to appear.
my country's marine fishery has expanded to the deep sea in an orderly manner. The deep sea aquaculture vessel "Zhanjiangwan No. 1" was launched in Nantong, Jiangsu. The wind and fishery integration of the deep sea cage breeding platform "Fuxi No. 1" completed the classification inspection of the China Classification Society; the independently developed 10,000-ton Antarctic krill ship "Fuyuanyu 9199" set sail from Fujian to Antarctica to carry out operations.
According to reports, my country's seawater desalination project has made positive progress, and the overall projects such as seawater heating, seawater pretreatment and water production purification system have been completed by more than 80%, further ensuring the living and scientific research water of the polar scientific investigation station.
