Singapore Aquaculture Plan

This Masterplan is intended to ensure Singapore's food security through aquaculture. For instance, Singapore is exploring potential sites in the Southern Waters for further studies on integrating closed containment aquaculture systems (CCAS) with open net cage systems for a new hybrid model for farming. CCAS ensures that fishes are protected from external environmental risks such as harmful algal blooms—an increasing concern due to climate change. There are also selective breeding porgrammes for seabass to improve important traits such as robustness in response to changing water conditions due to climate change. The Masterplan covers the following areas to ensure that Singapore adopts innovative and sustainable methods, while keeping to a mix of production systems that are suited to Singapore’s unique constraints: space and infrastructure planning; enabling regulations; research, innovation and enterprise; ecosystem development and demand offtake and promotion of local produce.