South Korea's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said that the country has succeeded in producing Alaska pollock in a completely controlled culture, reports KBS World Radio.

The ministry said Tuesday that the National Institute of Fisheries Science cultivated a fertilized egg from a wild pollock into a full-grown fish and among about 100,000 eggs that the fish laid, roughly 30,000 were raised to fingerlings.

Wild pollock are able to lay eggs three years after birth, but the pollock cultivated under controlled conditions laid eggs a year and eight months after birth.

The oceans ministry said it plans to distribute the technology to the private sector as early as 2018 and begin selling farmed pollock in 2020.

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