Ausrtalian company success in breeding bluefin tuna

An Australian aquaculture company has recently announced that it has been successful in breeding one of the world most endangered fish species the bluefin tuna. Clean Seas Tuna Company has announced says it has managed to produce bluefin from its offshore Arno Bay facility on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula.

In the past year bluefin tuna has become the main cause celebre among environmentalists with calls for a total global fishing ban from some groups, even though claims that the fishery is in danger everywhere are strongly disputed. Few doubt, however, that stocks in the Mediterranean and in waters around Australia  are seriously threatened.

But hope may be on the horizon. The Clean Seas Tuna Company  has said that two world-first transfers of batches of fingerlings have been carried through successfully from onshore nursery tanks to sea cages “for controlled grow-out trials in the ocean environment”. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers