Digitalization Dividends

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging information technology, while fishery is a traditional agricultural industry. The two seem to be incompatible. But for Shen Yunjian, who has been raising fish for 14 years, the IoT has brought him enormous benefits.

Shen, in his 50s, and his wife have contracted a 70- (4.67-hectare) fish pond in Quxi Village, Deqing County in the eastern province of Zhejiang. Like most fishermen, they adopted the traditional open-air fishpond farming model, relying on experience to raise fish. It meant they had to patrol the pond every two or three hours, even