A media report states that a Japanese company is exporting sustainably grown bluefin tuna. The company breeds bluefin tuna from eggs without disturbing the ocean stocks of the species. Bluefin tuna is either caught in the open seas or farmed from the baby fish caught in the nets, but marine products company Burimy says it is the first to sell bluefin grown from artificially hatched eggs.
Takahiro Hama, a director of the company based in the southern Japanese city of Amakusa, told that their tuna won’t affect the ecological system so that we can help stop draining marine resources. According to him the company has just shipped a ful consignment to the United States.
The company is optimist to provide their sustainable tuna for Japanese sushi bars and restaurants which are concerned about protests from environmental activists. Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks have crashed in recent decades due to industrial-scale fishing, mostly for the Japanese market. Burimy has teamed up with Japan’s Kinki University, which has succeeded in hatching eggs, nurturing baby fish and breeding them into fat adults in what the company says is the world’s first complete cultivation cycle.
These breed of tuna hatched from eggs dubbed as Kindai tuna and have also been sold at Japanese department stores and shops, priced at 2,000 to 4,000 yen (22 to 44 dollars) per kilogram (10 to 20 dollars per pound).
