"Dan Logcher" > wrote in message
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> Armadillo wrote:
>>
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/...pan_sushi_dc_1
>>
>>
>> Health issues are minor side-effects compared to extinction of tuna.
>>
>> A few years ago I quit buying tuna altogether, fresh or canned, and I
>> wish you all would do the same. I've made sushi at home regulairily
>> about 20 years now and I really would not like to serve my guests 'the
>> last piece of tuna'.
>
> Tuna? They say the oceans will be depleted by 2051. We'll probable have
> farm raised tuna still, but at what price. I may live longer enough to
> see
> this happen, although 43 years is a long time.
>
> --
> Dan

The standard practice has been, and remains, to net small wild Bluefin Tuna
and raise them in captive pens
fatttening them up for the market. However a few years ago a university fish
research facility
in Japan succeded in extracting Bluefin Tuna eggs, fertilizing them and
actually hatching Bluefin Tuna
in captivity. This technology over last few years while still rare, has been
so succcesful that the University
authorized the sales of the excess farm stocks to supplement their income. I
predict that that this is an
indicator of the farm-born/farm-rasied tuna we may all be eating in the
future.
Musashi