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Farming the Porsche of the Sea - Bluefin Tuna (True Tuna)
Posted on 11/14/14 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 11/14/14 at 5:02 pm
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Until recently, the Pacific bluefin tuna defied this sort of domestication. The bluefin can weigh as much as 900 pounds and barrels through the seas at up to 30 miles an hour. Over a month, it may roam thousands of miles of the Pacific. The massive creature is also moody, easily disturbed by light, noise or subtle changes in the water temperature. It hurtles through the water in a straight line, making it prone to fatal collisions in captivity.
Two scientists from Kinki went out to sea with local fishermen, seeking to capture juvenile tuna for raising in captivity. “We researchers always wanted to raise bluefin because it’s big and fast. It’s so special,” said one of the scientists, Hidemi Kumai, now 79 years old. “We knew from the beginning it was going to be a huge challenge.”
Toyota footed the bill for larger facilities where baby fish hatched at the university’s labs could be raised in large numbers for about four months. At that point, the juvenile fish are stable enough to be sold to commercial tuna ranches, where they are fattened in round pens around 100 feet in diameter and 30 feet deep for three to four years before being sold for slaughter.
I did not know this...
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Posted on 11/14/14 at 5:19 pm to tigerpawl
Google Tuna Cowboys. ..... some guys from Australia capture Tuna 1000s of miles from Australia and town them back in giant pens. Pretty cool documentary.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 5:21 pm to CHEDBALLZ
They're unbelievably awesome.
Not great lives for the tuna, but frick'em. We run the show.
Not great lives for the tuna, but frick'em. We run the show.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 5:38 pm to BRgetthenet
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but frick'em. The Japanese run the show.
Fify
Posted on 11/14/14 at 5:40 pm to BRgetthenet
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Not great lives for the tuna, but frick'em. We run the show.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
Here's to God.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 5:45 pm to tigerpawl
I have dominion over God and I say leave them shits alone, except for eating those tasty frickers raw...in that case dominion away.
This post was edited on 11/14/14 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 11/14/14 at 6:09 pm to CHEDBALLZ
I always thought the Tuna Coboys would go and seine a school of small BF's and then tow them to be raised and fattened because that's all that was left to commercially fish. Interesting they seem to have made some strides in hatching, growing, harvesting...
Posted on 11/14/14 at 7:02 pm to CHEDBALLZ
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Google Tuna Cowboys. ..... some guys from Australia capture Tuna 1000s of miles from Australia and town them back in giant pens. Pretty cool documentary.
Not sure if it's the same people but there was a show about this. Pretty interesting. I'd hate to have the job of the divers who have to chase the sharks out.
Posted on 11/16/14 at 6:21 am to LSUintheNW
For the longest time they tried to farm yellowfin and it didn't work because they couldn't get the color right. I know they are doing it in Europe now. I'm assuming technology is finally getting there.
Pretty cool if they can get the color and fat right on bluefins.
Pretty cool if they can get the color and fat right on bluefins.
Posted on 11/16/14 at 10:46 am to JasonL79
Posted on 11/16/14 at 3:35 pm to tigerpawl
Interesting read. I had already opened a tab for it after I spotted it on the WSJ site.
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