Bringing in bonito (Image: Phil Crean/Alamy)
COULD the tiger of the sea be domesticated – and thereby saved? Plans to farm endangered Mediterranean bluefin tuna moved a step closer this week, following the successful rearing in captivity of the smaller but closely related species, the Atlantic bonito.
Fernando de la Gándara and colleagues at the Spanish Oceanographic Institute in Murcia announced that for the first time they had reared bonito from egg to sexually mature adult – a cycle that takes a year. Now they hope to apply many of the methods to raising bluefin. “We’re developing lots of…
