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

KUSHIMOTO, Japan - Contained in a box is the world's first fully cultivated bluefin tuna ready for marketing in the town of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 3. Researchers at Kinki University in Osaka have succeeded in farming Pacific northern bluefin tuna from eggs, unlike existing farmed tuna that are reared from larvae caught in the wild.

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

KUSHIMOTO, Japan - Contained in a box is the world's first fully cultivated bluefin tuna ready for marketing in the town of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 3. Researchers at Kinki University in Osaka have succeeded in farming Pacific northern bluefin tuna from eggs, unlike existing farmed tuna that are reared from larvae caught in the wild. (Kyodo)