Southern Bluefin Tuna Ready For Spawning In Captivityff

Written by Stacey Davidson

Clean Seas Tuna’s ambition to close the lifecycle of southern bluefin tuna is looking positive, according to an update on the stock exchange last week.

Preparations have begun at the company’s onshore hatchery at Arno Bay for this season's tuna spawning.

”Males are aggressive and are competing for position,” chairman Hagen Stehr said in the update. ”The behavior from females is the same shown prior to the release of eggs in northern bluefin tuna. We are on target in our propagation cycle.”

In Japan, Kinki University successfully closed the lifecycle of northern bluefin tuna in 2002.

If Clean Seas Tuna is successful in its program, it will be the first to do the same for southern bluefin tuna.

Clean Seas Tuna is one of the firms which are listed in the Atuna Stock Index – click here to go to the Stock Index