How ‘salmon’ raised in landlocked Xinjiang is netting fans in China

Meltwater from snow-capped mountains is fostering an emerging trout-farming industry thousands of kilometres from the sea in western China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.Landlocked Xinjiang started large-scale farming of trout in 2021, and industry insiders said it was not only the fish that were growing quickly.“The local farming scale has expanded rapidly in recent years, with an increasing number of farmers entering the sector,” said Shi Lianyu, a researcher at the government-backed Xinjiang Aquatic Products Development Centre.While official output data for last year has not been released, he estimated it would be more than 10,000 tonnes (11,023 short tons).