logo
Find us on
Twitter Facebook LinkedIn
Skip Navigation Links
logo 9/23/2024 1:18:19 AM     
Farming endangered blue-fin tuna  
By Chris Hogg JP Source: bbc news 12/27/2006
Chris Hogg
The Japanese eat 80% of the world's blue-fin tuna.

The problem is that, like many other species, stocks of the fish are declining.

The situation is going to get a lot worse as other populous countries such as China are developing a taste for sushi and sashimi, which is what most of the blue-fin are used for.
 

The species is hard to cultivate because it is difficult to recreate the conditions they are used to in the wild.

The result can be seen at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, where the frozen tuna carcasses are laid out on the floor ready for the auction's fierce bidding.

A single giant tuna can cost you more than a new car.

But in the city of Shizoka, in a small shed on a university campus, a businessman is trying to recreate the oceans that the tuna are used to.

Blue-fin tuna have been farmed before, but not indoors, the team behind the project says.

 
Atlantic bluefin tuna Continue...

News Id SourceStampcountry
576Georgia lawmakers strip public trust language from law affirming right to fishajc2024-03-29US
577Sawfish Rescued in Florida as Biologists Try to DetermineAssociated Press2024-04-12US
578Aquatech collaboration aims for salmon farming circular economythefishsite2024-04-17UK
579How Uttar Pradesh is expanding its aquaculture sectorthefishsite2024-04-12IN
580Florida girl, 12, hooks multiple fishing recordsFox News2024-04-13US
581No signs of herring stocks rebounding 2 years into moratoriumCBC News2024-03-30CA
582over hundreds of fish spinning and whirling dead onto South Florida shoresABC News2024-03-29US
583Liquid nitrogen mishap kills 750,000 fish in rivers in Iowa and Missouriyahoo2024-03-29US
584Pet warning after toxic pufferfish washout hits Fish Hoek and Glencairn beachesiol2024-03-18ZA
585Kansas man catches world-record fishyahoo2024-03-18US
586Tilapia, highly adaptable and invasive fish, found growing in marine watersmongabay2024-03-19IN
587lack of action to stop fish dying in dried up Ashburton streamrnz2024-03-20NZ
588Federal advisory group recommends curtailed Oregon ocean salmon fishing againKLCC2024-04-15CA
589Opening of angling season adds eyes for researchers on P.E.I.s Morell RiverCBC News2024-04-15CA
590Fishing regulations to be relaxed at Lake Keomaheinnews2024-04-16US
591Walleye Ideasechopress2024-04-12US
592160,000 fish were killed in Oregon hatcheriessacbee2024-03-21US
593This 6-foot-long, 200-pound catfish is a goliath—and makes an epic migrationnationalgeographic2024-03-21US
594Scots anglers legs shaking after spending an hour reeling in skate fishdailyrecord2024-03-19UK
595Карась у кромки льдаohotniki2024-04-04RU
596Woman in Oregon reels in record-breaking fishfox news2024-04-09US
597California salmon fishing canceled for second year in rowFOX News2024-04-11US
598Study says wild fish healthier for you than farmed salmonmykxlg2024-03-20CA
599Fishery protests embarrassing for the provinceCBC News2024-03-23CA
600Novel parasite detected in trout at three Oregon fish hatcheriesktvl2024-03-19US

214 215 216 23 of [217 - pages.]