Feeding Bluefin

Recent research by Ichthus Unlimited, LLC, funded by the Illinois Soybean Association checkoff program, produced various soy-based diets for larval Atlantic Bluefin tuna in Spain and for juvenile yellowfin tuna in land-based facilities in Panama. Building on these...

San Diego bluefin tuna hatchery

‘Not convinced it can’t be done’: A look inside California’s new bluefin tuna hatchery   Ichthus Unlimited, primarily a fish feed company, brings fresh farming hopes to the ‘Tuna Capital of the World’. Like a doting father, Alejandro Buentello eagerly shows off...

Bluefin tuna hatchery success

Like a doting father, Alejandro Buentello eagerly shows off the petite 44-day old bluefin tuna swimming and darting in a tidy row of see-through tanks. Getting the first bluefin tuna hatchery in North America up and running has been no small task, and Buentello still...