The Toyota Tsusho Corporation, part of the Toyota Group, which includes the automobile giant Toyota Motors, announced last week it would begin farming bluefin tuna from fry and into juvenile stages in its Nago City, Okinawa operations in November.

The company signed a collaboration agreement with Kinki University in 2010. Kinki has made several breakthroughs in completing the bluefin aquaculture cycle, first finding success in Goto City, Nagasaki.

A Toyota Tsusho subsidiary, Tuna Dream Okinawa, will operate under a specialized fishing permit from the Haneji Fisheries Cooperatives.

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