Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- A croaker pedigree farm has been built at the Ongjin West Sea Fish Farm in the DPRK.

The pedigree farm has an office building, welfare facilities, hatching ground and cage-nets.

It is another stride forward in sea farming that the decision of the Workers' Party of Korea on building a croaker pedigree farm in South Hwanghae Province was carried out to lay a foundation for mass-producing tasty and nutritious fishes of higher quality.

An inauguration ceremony of the pedigree farm took place on the spot on January 19.

Present there were officials of the Party and power organs in South Hwanghae Province and employees of the provincial fishery management bureau and the fish farm.

Minister of Fisheries Song Chun Sop addressed the ceremony.

The speaker said that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave precious instructions for croaker farming, examined the layout of the pedigree farm and the map showing the bird's-eye view of it and expounded the issues for its construction project, management and operation.

He called upon the employees of the pedigree farm to steadily increase production by dint of science and technology and thus fully demonstrate the validity and vitality of the Party's policy.

At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round the pedigree farm. -0-