(1)World's 1st fully cultivated tuna to debut in market

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A researcher at Kinki University feeds bluefin tuna cultivated in the pool of the university's Research Laboratory in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, in a file photo taken in 2000. The Osaka-based university said on Sept. 3 that the world's first fully cultivated bluefin tuna raised from eggs will shortly be shipped to market. The laboratory began fish farming research in 1970 and succeeded in having tuna lay eggs in an artificial environment for the first time in the world in 1979.

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