Saturday, April 19, 2008

Breeding of amberjack and blue fin tuna a milestone in fisheries research

Malta will be receiving e250,000 over three years to reach four objectives with regard to the development of the amberjack and blue fin tuna industry: building up of parenting stock, developing nutrition procedures for the stock, gathering a sample of tuna eggs to be analysed and testing transportation of such eggs to find the method that will not damage them. The European Union is contributing e3 million in view of these objectives. This was explained by Resources and Rural Affairs Minister George Pullicino while accompanying the European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Joe Borg together with a European delegation on a visit to the fish exhibition and marine nursery at the Malta Centre for Fisheries Sciences (MCFS), Fort San Lucjan, Marsaxlokk.
The new research in the breeding of tuna in cages 1.2 kilometres out at sea would surely help in mitigating the depletion of stocks. Such stock was tagged about 10 days ago to ensure sustainable growth and development besides general monitoring of the project.

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