Survival Trial Sees Promising Results - June 19, 2009
On the final day John Hutapea and I collected data from a growth and survival analysis of a high density stocking population of yolk-sack larvae.

Walling Issues Begin to Reveal Themselves - June 18, 2009
As the IATTC Workshop began to close, Alex Mühlhölzl, Oceanic Tuna Limited, stayed behing to take a closer look behind the scenes at Achotines.

Results Compiled as Trials Come to a Close - June 17, 2009
Yellowfin tuna trials, conducted over the last fortnight at Achotines Laboratory in Panama, are coming to a close.

Trial Examines Live Shipment of Yellowfin - June 16, 2009
On Thursday, researchers started a live shipment trial, with the aim of replicating the conditions and stresses that larval shipment would undergo.

Tuna Weaning Trials see Success - June 15, 2009
An artemia culture was started in preparation for the feeding of the larvae from the growth and light trials at Acotines Bay tuna facility.

Hard Work Still to be Done at Achotines Bay - June 14, 2009
Sunday, at the IATTC 7th Annual Workshop was an easy relaxed day. The clear tank was stocked with yolk-sack larvae.

Delegates Astounded by Tuna Trial Results - June 13, 2009
The water level in the tanks were lowered on Saturday, allowing delegates of the IATTC 7th Annual Workshop to count and compare trial results.

Assessing Tuna Mortality and Survival Rates - June 12, 2009
On Friday, delegates transferred the previously caught tuna from the holding tank into tank 2.

Second Attempts to Wean Tuna - June 11, 2009
Attendees of the 7th Annual Workshop transferred 100,000 yolk-sack larvae into two tanks for some high density larvae rearing trials.

Fishing for Broodstock - June 10, 2009
Today was the first day fishing for broodstock, and it was my group’s day in the boat, with my group partner being Dr Gavin Partridge from Challenger TAFE in Fremantle Western Australia.

Experiments Aim to Boost Larvae Survival - June 09, 2009
On the second day of the workshop, experiments were planned that might help boost the survival rates of the yellowfin tuna larvae.

First Night Sees 90 Per Cent Fertilisation - June 08, 2009
On day one of the 7th Annual Workshop delegates arrived at the facility and met Vernon Scholey, the Laboratory Director at the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.

UAE, Japan Unite on Bluefin Farming - May 06, 2009
The UAE Ministry of Water and Environment has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kinki University in Japan to cultivate Pacific bluefin.

Mediterranean Bluefin Will be Gone by 2012 - April 17, 2009
WWF has released an analysis showing that the bluefin breeding population will disappear by 2012 under the current fishing regime.

Yellowfin Research: Oceanic Tuna Reach Out - March 27, 2009
Oceanic Tuna Limited (OTL,) has announced two new partnering arrangements with the IATTC and the University of Stirling.

Aquaculture: Keeping Tuna on the Menu - January 26, 2009
In December 2007, Kinki University in Wakayama Prefecture became the first facility in the world to "close the cycle".

Stopping the Spooks: Solutions for Walling - January 26, 2009
Oceanic Tuna has spent the past four years developing a system aimed at negating the detrimental spooking that leads to walling of tuna juveniles.

Oceanic Tuna Limited

Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission

The Achotines Laboratory

Factsheets on Tuna and Tuna like species - Global 2004 (FIRMS)

• Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
• Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)
• Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus)
• Albacore (Thunnus alalunga)
• Southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii)
• Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
• Swordfish, (Xiphias gladius)

• Tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations and Bodies
• Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
• Forum Fisheries Agency
• International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
• Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
• International Scientific Committee for tuna and tuna-like species in the North Pacific Ocean
• Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Oceanic Fisheries Programme)
• Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission

Alex Mühlhölzl is the Managing Director of Oceanic Tuna, a Scottish company that has developed a range of technologies and methodologies aimed at the successful land based commercial propagation of tuna. Oceanic Tuna believe that commercial propagation is the most decisive way to save ocean stocks from the verge of collapse.