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Study to assess viability of southern waters for fish farming
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Workers at Barramundi Asia, which operates farms off Singapore, harvesting the fish from a sea cage. There are 110 sea-based farms in Singapore, with 108 located in the Johor Strait, and two deep-sea farms in the southern waters.
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Amid initiatives to ramp up local food production, the authorities here are looking into the possibility of commercial fish farming in the waters south of the mainland.
"The study includes assessing the level of fish production that the waters can support without impacting the site conditions, and is expected to be completed by the end of this year," a spokesman for the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) told The Straits Times last week.
