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Bluefin tuna, one of the most emblematic species of the Mediterranean and a major economic impact on the Region of Murcia, has a future.
That's the conclusion of the Day 'A new dawn for bluefin tuna, "which was held yesterday in the Hall of CIM.
Reducing the population of this species has forced to find ways to ensure their survival and the solution is the larval rearing of tuna in captivity.
The University last year signed an agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture has allowed the recruitment of world's foremost expert on farmed bluefin tuna in captivity.
Professor of Kinki University in Japan Manabu Seok runs from July to work as a visiting professor in the Department of Company: Growing larval bluefin tuna UPCT.
The team led by University Seok Japan was the world's first to get tuna larvae reared in captivity reached sufficient maturity so that they could sell.
Professor Manabu Seok said yesterday during his speech that through this work next year will reach the U.S. market between seven and ten thousand tuna.
A little over a year, a team led by researchers at the Oceanographic Centre of Murcia, Fernando de la Gándara and Aurelio Ortega got in captivity made egg production.
But there was still a long way, you had to go for the larvae to grow properly and may become adult in sufficient numbers to permit and make its production profitable.
To achieve this end this team has the support of the Japanese professor, a world leader in this area will try to avoid some of the problems facing the larvae to survive.
Manabu Seok explained how his research helped to reduce the different causes of death that occurred in the production of larvae seeking the right formula for growing and taking into account fundamental aspects of the species food sold in the Pacific.
Solutions are already being tested in Atlantic bluefin tuna, a species that has its habitat in the Mediterranean.
At the conference, organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, the Campus Mare Nostrum, the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and the General Secrertaría del Mar, also participated, among other speakers, the coordinator of the International Scientific Committee for the Bluefin Tuna Recovery Antonio Dinatale, who studies the current populations of this species in the Mediterranean.
Antonio Dinatale has emphasized that the restriction of fishing quotas has allowed a recovery of bluefin tuna and the goal is the sustainable exploitation of this important fishery resource.
Source: UPCT
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