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[Anchor Lead] Pollack has been a favorite among Koreans for a long time, but had practically vanished from Korean dinner tables in recent times. Now a team of scientists has succeeded in farm-raising pollack for the first time in the world. [Pkg] Reckless over-fishing and changing water temperatures have driven pollack nearly to extinction in the Korean seas. But now, Korean scientists have found a way to vastly increase the number of pollack caught in Korea. Fertilized eggs, obtained from rare pollack females caught in the wild, were artificially incubated. It took another two years for the artificially hatched pollack to spawn again, boosting their number to roughly 40,000. This is the first time in the world that mass farming of pollack succeeded into the second generation. In two years the private sector will start pollack-farming, and local pollack will be available in Korean markets by 2020. [Soundbite] Yoon Hag-bae(Vice Minister of Oceans and Fisheries) : "It will bring economic benefits by replacing imported fish. Pollack in the East Sea will also be restored by producing and releasing artificially bred pollack hatchlings out to the sea." Fishermen are looking forward to the return of a pollack boom. Korea had caught as much as 15,000 tons of pollack a year in the 1980s. [Soundbite] Kim Yeong-hwa(Fisherman, Gangwon-do Prov.) : "It's great. The return of pollack represents big hopes for fishermen." The efforts to bring back the Korean pollack, which had vanished from the East Sea, will lead to continued mass farming and release of pollack hatchlings.