date:May 08, 2014
t hook-and-line fishermen in Japan have pointed the finger at purse seiners for the declining stock.
While fish farming may appear as an alternative to wild, most bluefin aquaculture pens are stocked with wild-caught juveniles. Closed-cycle breeding, developed in Japan, is not yet economically competitive outside of a government-subsidized university research environment and still makes up a small percentage of production.