China: Traditional fish farming shifts to tech-driven production in China.

Storyline Traditional fish farming shifts to tech-driven production in China China’s fishing industry is upgrading its production and farming with integrated technology and data-driven innovation. In southern Guangdong Province, an offshore deep-sea aquaculture platform called Gesheng 1, embodies this focus. With a semi-submersible wave-stabilized truss, the 86-meter-long platform houses 30,000 cubic meters of water for fish farming and serves as a "marine laboratory" for testing new technologies. Like this underwater cleaning equipment that uses cameras to maintain net cages remotely. Data shows that last year China produced more than 63 million tons of aquaculture, accounting for about 56 percent of the global total output. [Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland]