Antarctic krill is one of the largest single biological resources on the earth, distributed in the waters around the Antarctic continent, with an estimated resource of 65-1000 million tons. Due to its abundant reserves and great development potential, Antarctic krill is known as the largest and last animal bank in protein. Accelerating the development of Antarctic krill resources will effectively promote the development of shipbuilding, food processing, cold chain logistics and other related industries, extend the industrial chain, and further promote the transformation of Rongcheng seafood from primary rough processing to deep processing, and from traditional products to high-end fields such as biomedicine and health care products.
In the past two years, Rongcheng Ocean Development Bureau has optimized the overseas layout of offshore fishing, taking the development of Antarctic marine living resources as an important development direction, and actively promoted Shidao Group and other two companies to obtain approval from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs to build two Antarctic krill fishing and processing ships, laying a solid foundation for accelerating the transformation and upgrading of Rongcheng offshore fishing, cultivating emerging marine industries and boosting the leap-forward development of marine economy.