The Shikina Lab - 珊瑚農場 Coral Farm

珊瑚農場 Coral Farm

We culture stony corals at the New Taipei City Marine Resources Recovery Park using an abandoned abalone farming pond

Our lab has cultured corals since 2019 using aquaculture methods we learned from the fishermen of Onna Village in Okinawa, Japan. To establish our farm, we collected and propagated naturally growing corals from abalone aquaculture ponds in surrounding areas. As of 2024, our farm is home to over 4,000 individual fragments of more than 17 coral species. Using cultured corals for research, rather than sampling colonies from wild populations, facilitates environmentally friendly, safe, and systematic biological studies of corals.

自2019年起，我們在附近的貢寮鮑養殖池內，收集自然生長的珊瑚進行養殖。截至2024年，農場內培育超過17種珊瑚，珊瑚片段數量更超過4,000個，珊瑚養殖的方法是向日本沖繩縣恩納村漁民學習的，使用培育的珊瑚進行研究不僅環保安全，還能系統性的進行珊瑚生物學研究。

We culture stony corals on the northeastern coast of Taiwan 🇹🇼

台灣的東北角附近海域養殖珊瑚

We use an abandoned abalone farming pond to culture corals

使用貢寮鮑養殖池來養殖珊瑚

The pond's large size (40 m × 25 m × 4 m in depth) creates a stable culturing environment for corals. As tides rise and fall, both natural seawater and wild marine organisms flow in and out of the pond, providing a regular supply of natural coral food.

這個大型的養殖池(長40公尺×寬25公尺×深4公尺)，提供珊瑚穩定的培育環境，隨著潮汐的漲落，養殖池不僅有天然的海水，海洋生物也會溜進溜出，定期的為珊瑚提供天然的食物。