Scientists Manage To Adapt Juvenile Blue Fin Tuna To Captivity In Land Installations

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Scientists Manage to Adapt Juvenile Blue Fin Tuna to Captivity in Land Installations

 

Bluefin tuna in captivity. (Credit: Copyright: IEO Instituto Español de Oceanografía)

 

ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2010) — Research scientists Fernando de la Gándara and Aurelio Ortega, along with technicians Juan Ramón Prieto and Javier Viguri from the tuna culture team at the IEO, have managed to adapt around twenty juvenile bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), to captivity in land based facilities at the Plant for Marine Culture at the Murcian Oceangraphic Centre.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101126094542.htm