The Chinese marine aquaculture industry has grown from 500,000 metric tons in 2003 to 1.5 million in 2019 and it is this exponential rise in volumes that has lured Japanese conglomerate Marubeni into the industry's feed sector.

The company, already well-established in the Japanese feed market, sees the obvious investment sense in an industry multiple times bigger than its domestic market and as such is plowing capital of JPY 850 million (€6.7