Scholar seeking to farm substitute for bluefin tuna

Rie Goto, an associate professor at Ehime University, holds an eastern little tuna on Feb. 25, 2015. She has been engaged in a project at the Japanese national university's fisheries research center in Ainan Town, Ehime Prefecture, to farm the fish as a substitute for bluefin tuna. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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