Delta Cooperates with National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium to Breed Heat-tolerant Coral, Adopting Technology to Corals Restoration

Delta Electronics is proactively protecting biodiversity by restoring coral with corporate volunteers assisting researchers from the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium.

The volunteers and researchers collected coral sperm and eggs during the coral breeding season and conducting artificial insemination and incubation in the laboratory to improve the success rate of coral colonization. Leveraging its expertise in industrial automation, Delta has developed a customized coral incubator and coral vertical breeding system based on the Delta Plant Factory. The breeding system adopts an LED light system with a special spectrum to accelerate coral growth with programmable logic controllers that regularly feed and change water. Delta is assisting the museum in breeding heat-tolerant coral to cope with increasingly frequent marine heatwaves, fulfilling its “Climate Change” and “Life Below Water” sustainable development goals.

“In the past, it was difficult to break through the traditional environment bottlenecks. With the assistance of Delta’s technology and equipment, we expect to complete the collection and incubation of 10 types of coral in southern Taiwan in the first stage. We will build on the research on coral symbiosis and the breeding of heat-tolerant coral to conduct research on culturing heat-tolerant phycobionts to reduce coral bleaching”, said the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium Director Chii-Shiarng Chen.