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Offshore Yellowfin Tuna Breeding Base - China

Qin Chuanxin, a researcher at the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, shows a specimen of yellowfin tuna in Lingshui Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province, on Sept. 17, 2025. In recent years, Hainan Province has accelerated the development of its fishery industry by giving full play to its advantages in marine fisheries. Thanks to technological breakthroughs, the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences established an offshore yellowfin tuna breeding base in Lingshui, which has achieved artificial spawning and hatching of yellowfin tunas. Photo by Xinhua/Guo Cheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Offshore Yellowfin Tuna Breeding Base - China

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 17, 2025 shows staff members feeding tunas at an offshore yellowfin tuna breeding base in Lingshui Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province. In recent years, Hainan Province has accelerated the development of its fishery industry by giving full play to its advantages in marine fisheries. Thanks to technological breakthroughs, the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences established an offshore yellowfin tuna breeding base in Lingshui, which has achieved artificial spawning and hatching of yellowfin tunas. Photo by Xinhua/Guo Cheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Offshore Yellowfin Tuna Breeding Base - China

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 17, 2025 shows staff members feeding tunas at an offshore yellowfin tuna breeding base in Lingshui Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province. In recent years, Hainan Province has accelerated the development of its fishery industry by giving full play to its advantages in marine fisheries. Thanks to technological breakthroughs, the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences established an offshore yellowfin tuna breeding base in Lingshui, which has achieved artificial spawning and hatching of yellowfin tunas. Photo by Xinhua/Guo Cheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Offshore Yellowfin Tuna Breeding Base - China

This photo taken on Sept. 17, 2025 shows yellowfin tunas undergoing an experiment at the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences in Lingshui Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province. In recent years, Hainan Province has accelerated the development of its fishery industry by giving full play to its advantages in marine fisheries. Thanks to technological breakthroughs, the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences established an offshore yellowfin tuna breeding base in Lingshui, which has achieved artificial spawning and hatching of yellowfin tunas. Photo by Xinhua/Guo Cheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Offshore Yellowfin Tuna Breeding Base - China

A staff member feeds tunas at an offshore yellowfin tuna breeding base in Lingshui Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province, on Sept. 17, 2025. In recent years, Hainan Province has accelerated the development of its fishery industry by giving full play to its advantages in marine fisheries. Thanks to technological breakthroughs, the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences established an offshore yellowfin tuna breeding base in Lingshui, which has achieved artificial spawning and hatching of yellowfin tunas. Photo by Xinhua/Guo Cheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Offshore Yellowfin Tuna Breeding Base - China

This photo taken on Sept. 17, 2025 shows tunas vying for food at an offshore yellowfin tuna breeding base in Lingshui Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province. In recent years, Hainan Province has accelerated the development of its fishery industry by giving full play to its advantages in marine fisheries. Thanks to technological breakthroughs, the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences established an offshore yellowfin tuna breeding base in Lingshui, which has achieved artificial spawning and hatching of yellowfin tunas. Photo by Xinhua/Guo Cheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fishermen Daily Life - Sri Lanka

Fishermen unload tunas from a fishing trawler in Negombo, Sri Lanka, March 26, 2025. Located more than 30 kilometers north of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, Negombo is famous for its fish market. Fishermen here have been maintaining a traditional lifestyle of catching, drying and selling fishes for hundreds of years, making it a major attraction of cultural tourism in Sri Lanka. Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fishermen Daily Life - Sri Lanka

Fishermen unload tunas from a fishing trawler in Negombo, Sri Lanka, March 26, 2025. Located more than 30 kilometers north of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, Negombo is famous for its fish market. Fishermen here have been maintaining a traditional lifestyle of catching, drying and selling fishes for hundreds of years, making it a major attraction of cultural tourism in Sri Lanka. Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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MALTA-XEMXIJA-BLUEFIN TUNA-HARVEST

(231113) -- XEMXIJA, Nov. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 12, 2023 shows bluefin tunas caught from a bluefin tuna farm in Xemxija, Malta. The Malta-China agreement on exporting bluefin tuna was signed in Beijing by Maltese Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg, who attended the opening of the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai. The agreement opens new opportunities for Maltese tuna producers to enter the Chinese market. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)

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MALTA-XEMXIJA-BLUEFIN TUNA-HARVEST

(231113) -- XEMXIJA, Nov. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 12, 2023 shows bluefin tunas caught from a bluefin tuna farm in Xemxija, Malta. The Malta-China agreement on exporting bluefin tuna was signed in Beijing by Maltese Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg, who attended the opening of the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai. The agreement opens new opportunities for Maltese tuna producers to enter the Chinese market. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)

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MALTA-XEMXIJA-BLUEFIN TUNA-HARVEST

(231113) -- XEMXIJA, Nov. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 12, 2023 shows bluefin tunas caught from a bluefin tuna farm in Xemxija, Malta. The Malta-China agreement on exporting bluefin tuna was signed in Beijing by Maltese Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg, who attended the opening of the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai. The agreement opens new opportunities for Maltese tuna producers to enter the Chinese market. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)

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MALTA-XEMXIJA-BLUEFIN TUNA-HARVEST

(231113) -- XEMXIJA, Nov. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member sprays water on bluefin tunas caught from a bluefin tuna farm in Xemxija, Malta, Nov. 12, 2023. The Malta-China agreement on exporting bluefin tuna was signed in Beijing by Maltese Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg, who attended the opening of the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai. The agreement opens new opportunities for Maltese tuna producers to enter the Chinese market. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)

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MALTA-XEMXIJA-BLUEFIN TUNA-HARVEST

(231113) -- XEMXIJA, Nov. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 12, 2023 shows bluefin tunas caught from a bluefin tuna farm in Xemxija, Malta. The Malta-China agreement on exporting bluefin tuna was signed in Beijing by Maltese Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg, who attended the opening of the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai. The agreement opens new opportunities for Maltese tuna producers to enter the Chinese market. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)

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MALTA-XEMXIJA-BLUEFIN TUNA-HARVEST

(231113) -- XEMXIJA, Nov. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 12, 2023 shows a tuna vessel waiting to process and transport bluefin tunas near a bluefin tuna farm in Xemxija, Malta. The Malta-China agreement on exporting bluefin tuna was signed in Beijing by Maltese Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg, who attended the opening of the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai. The agreement opens new opportunities for Maltese tuna producers to enter the Chinese market. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)

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MALTA-XEMXIJA-BLUEFIN TUNA-HARVEST

(231113) -- XEMXIJA, Nov. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member sprays water on bluefin tunas caught from a bluefin tuna farm in Xemxija, Malta, Nov. 12, 2023. The Malta-China agreement on exporting bluefin tuna was signed in Beijing by Maltese Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg, who attended the opening of the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai. The agreement opens new opportunities for Maltese tuna producers to enter the Chinese market. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)

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Atlantic bluefin tuna

AGADIR, Morocco - The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, an international body managing fishery resources in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, decides at its annual conference in Agadir, Morocco, on Nov. 19, 2012, to expand the bluefin tuna catch quota to 13,400 tons in 2013 from the current 12,900 tons, the first expansion in 10 years.

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Tuna conference

AGADIR, Morocco - Photo shows the venue of an annual conference of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in Agadir, Morocco, on Nov. 18, 2012. The international body managing fishery resources in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic decided on Nov. 19 at the conference to expand the bluefin tuna catch quota to 13,400 tons in 2013 from the current 12,900 tons, the first expansion in 10 years.

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Bluefin tuna quota to be cut

PARIS, France - Photo shows tuna auctioned at Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market on Nov. 26, 2010. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas decided Nov. 27, 2010, to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011 by 4.4 percent from a year earlier to 12,900 tons.

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Bluefin tuna quota to be cut

PARIS, France - Photo shows tuna auctioned at Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market on Nov. 26, 2010. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas decided Nov. 27, 2010, to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011 by 4.4 percent from a year earlier to 12,900 tons.

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Atlantic, Mediterranean bluefin tuna catch quota cut by 40%

RECIFE, Brazil - The 21st annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas holds a closing session near Recife, northeastern Brazil, on Nov. 15.

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People treated to nocturnal aquarium show

NAGOYA, Japan - Visitors observe the nocturnal behavior of marine animals in a dimly lit tank during a one-hour ''Night Watching'' tour at the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium in Nagoya. During the summertime event held Fridays and Saturdays through Aug. 29, people can see somnambulant bottlenose dolphins and tunas, as well as sea turtles that lie still with their eyes shut.

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Mitsubishi Electric develops aquarium with 3-D computer graphics

OSAKA, Japan - Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said June 16 it has developed a ''virtual aquarium'' screen on which lifelike three-dimensional computer-controlled graphic images of fish and an underwater world are projected. The demonstration of the 4.8 meter-by-0.9 meter monitor is shown in Osaka, where graphical fish such as tunas and bonitos responded to a viewer's claps.

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Tuna fetches 6.38 mil. yen at Tsukiji's 1st auction for 2003

TOKYO, Japan - Fish brokers check tunas during Tokyo Tsukiji fish market's first auction of the year Jan. 5. A 228-kilogram blue fin tuna caught off Aomori Prefecture snagged the highest price of 6.38 million yen out of 3,600 tunas.

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Bluefin tuna farming plays important role in Malta's aquaculture industry

STORY: Bluefin tuna farming plays important role in Malta's aquaculture industry DATELINE: Sept. 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:41 LOCATION: XEMXIJA, Malta CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Bluefin tuna farming in Malta STORYLINE: Bluefin tuna farming plays an important role in Malta's aquaculture industry. A large underwater cage for farming tuna in the sea is around 50 meters deep with a diameter of around 50 meters. Usually, about 1,000 tunas are swimming inside, varying in size and weight. Bluefin tunas farmed in Malta are mainly exported to Japan. The tuna farming cost has been raised due to the increase in expenses such as fuel, labor and feed fish this year. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Xemxija, Malta. (XHTV)

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MALTA-XEMXIJA-BLUEFIN TUNA FARM

(220902) -- XEMXIJA, Sept. 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Staff members feed bluefin tunas with forage fish in Xemxija, Malta, Sept. 1, 2022. Bluefin tuna farming plays an important role in Malta's aquaculture sector. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)

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MALTA-XEMXIJA-BLUEFIN TUNA FARM

(220902) -- XEMXIJA, Sept. 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A diver helps feed bluefin tunas in Xemxija, Malta, Sept. 1, 2022. Bluefin tuna farming plays an important role in Malta's aquaculture sector. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)

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Only one tuna left at Tokyo aquarium after mysterious mass deaths

Photo shows the last surviving bluefin tuna in a tank at Tokyo Sea Life Park on March 31, 2015. The aquarium has added two scalloped hammerheads into the donut-shaped tuna tank, once home to 69 bluefin tunas, to further examine the cause of the deaths of the fish. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aquarium aims to recover swarm of tuna

Photo taken May 15, 2015, shows an aquarium at Tokyo Sea Life Park, which showed a swarm of oriental bonitos. At the aquarium, a throng of tunas died since December of unknown causes, prompting its operator to put in place oriental bonitos to check the environment. The operator aims to recover the swarm of tuna by the time when summer break starts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aquarium aims to recover swarm of tuna

Photo taken May 15, 2015, shows an aquarium at Tokyo Sea Life Park, which showed a swarm of oriental bonitos. At the aquarium, a throng of tunas died since December of unknown causes, prompting its operator to put in place oriental bonitos to check the environment. The operator aims to recover the swarm of tuna by the time when summer break starts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Only one tuna left at Tokyo aquarium after mass deaths

Photo shows the last surviving bluefin tuna in a tank at Tokyo Sea Life Park in the Japanese capital's Koto Ward on March 24, 2015, after the only other of two such tunas was found dead earlier that day. The aquarium had 69 tunas as well as dozens of other fish in the same tank on Nov. 1, 2014, but the fish started dying in large numbers from late December, with the cause of their death not yet known. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Only one tuna left at Tokyo aquarium after mass deaths

Photo shows the last surviving bluefin tuna in a tank at Tokyo Sea Life Park in the Japanese capital's Koto Ward on March 24, 2015, after the only other of two such tunas was found dead earlier that day. The aquarium had 69 tunas as well as dozens of other fish in the same tank on Nov. 1, 2014, but the fish started dying in large numbers from late December, with the cause of their death not yet known. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tuna at Tokyo aquarium being wiped out, virus found

Only three tunas remain alive in an exhibition corner at Kasai Rinkai Aquarium in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2015, after large numbers started dying a month earlier. The aquarium, which had 69 tunas as well as dozens of other fish in the same tank on Nov. 1, 2014, is investigating whether a virus found in spleen cells of three dead fish tested is pathogenic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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80-year-old tuna trader at Tsukiji market shelves retirement

Tunas are displayed ahead of an auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on Jan. 5, 2016. The relocation of the market to the nearby Toyosu area, scheduled for early November in the year, was postponed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Atlantic, Mediterranean bluefin tuna catch quota cut by 40%

RECIFE, Brazil - The 21st annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas holds a closing session near Recife, northeastern Brazil, on Nov. 15. (Kyodo)

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Bluefin tuna quota to be cut

PARIS, France - Photo shows tuna auctioned at Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market on Nov. 26, 2010. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas decided Nov. 27, 2010, to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011 by 4.4 percent from a year earlier to 12,900 tons. (Kyodo)

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Bluefin tuna quota to be cut

PARIS, France - Photo shows tuna auctioned at Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market on Nov. 26, 2010. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas decided Nov. 27, 2010, to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011 by 4.4 percent from a year earlier to 12,900 tons. (Kyodo)

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Mardesic factory, Sali, port, Dugi Otok island

Illustrative photo, sailing yacht, cruising, cruiser, sea, recreation, holidays, The Mardesic factory, producer of canned fish, mostly sardines, anchovies, tunas and mackerels, in Sali, the municipal and administrative centre of the island Dugi Otok, Dalmatia, Croatia on June 25, 2020. (CTK Photo/Libor Sojka)

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Bluefin tunas at port in western Japan

File photo taken in May shows Pacific bluefin tunas being unloaded from a vessel at a port in Sakaiminato, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsubishi Electric develops aquarium with 3-D computer graphics

OSAKA, Japan - Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said June 16 it has developed a ''virtual aquarium'' screen on which lifelike three-dimensional computer-controlled graphic images of fish and an underwater world are projected. The demonstration of the 4.8 meter-by-0.9 meter monitor is shown in Osaka, where graphical fish such as tunas and bonitos responded to a viewer's claps. (Kyodo)

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Tuna fetches 6.38 mil. yen at Tsukiji's 1st auction for 2003

TOKYO, Japan - Fish brokers check tunas during Tokyo Tsukiji fish market's first auction of the year Jan. 5. A 228-kilogram blue fin tuna caught off Aomori Prefecture snagged the highest price of 6.38 million yen out of 3,600 tunas. (Kyodo)