According to freelance reporter Bob Tkacz (via APRN), a Chinese subsidiary of a British Columbia company has created the China's first salmon farm. The farm, consisting entirely of high-tech closed-system tanks, not net pens, lies in a reservoir near the city of Benxi, in northeast China near the North Korean border.

It opened in 2009 with a production run of steelhead trout. Currently, it is growing chinook and plans to add coho, about 200-300 tons of chinook this year, and about the same amount of coho in 2013.

The farm's production is filling increasing market demand in China, and could make marketing Alaska's wild salmon there harder.

Listen to more, here, and listen, here, to a report by Tkacz from the China Fisheries and Seafood Expo earlier this November.