That seared, sushi or blackened tuna on your plate may be cheaper some time in the future because of the work of a group of aquaculture scientists at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School on Virginia Key.
Led by Dan Benetti, director of the school’s fish-farming program, the researchers are poised to be first to raise blackfin tuna successfully in a tank — a major step in proving the commercial viability of farming tuna species worldwide.
“The first and only blackfin aquaculture facility in the world,” Benetti pronounced. “We are using this as a model species for developing techniques for tuna aquaculture.”
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