Barramundi Group stops farming sea bass in S’pore due to deadly virus outbreak

Barramundi Group has harvested all its Asian sea bass and stopped stocking its three ocean-based farm sites with juvenile fish. - BARRAMUNDI GROUP

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A deadly fish virus has cast a pall over the future of sea bass farming in Singapore after forcing the Republic’s only fish farm operator in its southern waters to halt commercial production, The Straits Times has learnt.

This comes amid efforts to boost local seafood production to help the country produce 30 per cent of its nutritional needs by 2030, with the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) eyeing more sites in its southern waters for aquaculture.