Global Royal Fish (GRF) says by achieving a weaning process on to a dry diet, the company has overcome a major hurdle to enable the farming of tuna on formulated feeds.
“This is a very significant breakthrough. The implication is that the farming of tuna will be able to be carried out on formulated feeds, enabling an acceleration of the process toward ‘industrial’ farming,” Gidon Minkoff, doing research on the project for the company, told IntraFish on Tuesday.
The problem with tuna farming up to now is the fish being fattened -- currently the practice is to catch small fish from the wild and pen them up -- do not want to feed on formulated feed, so growers use mainly sardines to feed them, he said.
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