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Bon Gusto,

Walter Rhee

Interesting - but it says it's by Susan Morse - ?

So how does that farmed blue fin tuna compare in quality?

wrote on 9 Sep 2005 14:18:36 -0700:

z> Interesting - but it says it's by Susan Morse - ?

z> So how does that farmed blue fin tuna compare in quality?

I wonder how it is possible to farm a large vigorous fish like a
tuna and, even if you can, how would its quality be?

James Silverton.

"James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.net> wrote in message
...
> wrote on 9 Sep 2005 14:18:36 -0700:
>
> z> Interesting - but it says it's by Susan Morse - ?
>
> z> So how does that farmed blue fin tuna compare in quality?
>
> I wonder how it is possible to farm a large vigorous fish like a
> tuna and, even if you can, how would its quality be?

The farmed bluefin tuna raised off west coast of Mexico are smaller fish.
Quality is fine but not much color (fat). I have seen them come in up to
140 lbs. The farmed bluefin coming out of the Mediterranean can be much
larger . . . 300-400 lbs. and will have nice color.

D. wrote on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:21:41 -0700:


DL> "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.net> wrote
DL> in message ...
??>> wrote on 9 Sep 2005 14:18:36 -0700:
??>>
z>>> Interesting - but it says it's by Susan Morse - ?
??>>
z>>> So how does that farmed blue fin tuna compare in quality?
??>>
??>> I wonder how it is possible to farm a large vigorous fish
??>> like a tuna and, even if you can, how would its quality
??>> be?

DL>
The farmed bluefin tuna raised off west coast of Mexico are
smaller fish.
Quality is fine but not much color (fat). I have seen them come
in up to
140 lbs. The farmed bluefin coming out of the Mediterranean can
be much
larger . . . 300-400 lbs. and will have nice color.
DL>

I guess I did what should have done earlier and searched on
Google for information on tuna farms. According to
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/innews/tunafarm.htm
the "farming" really amounts to fattening up tuna caught in the
wild and does not do much to help the world shortage of tuna.
Apparently about half the traded blue fin tuna comes from
Mediterranean tuna farms. I originally thought that the farms
might be raising the fish completely.

James Silverton.

"James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.net> wrote in message
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> D. wrote on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:21:41 -0700:
>
>
> DL> "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.net> wrote
> DL> in message ...
> ??>> wrote on 9 Sep 2005 14:18:36 -0700:
> ??>>
> z>>> Interesting - but it says it's by Susan Morse - ?
> ??>>
> z>>> So how does that farmed blue fin tuna compare in quality?
> ??>>
> ??>> I wonder how it is possible to farm a large vigorous fish
> ??>> like a tuna and, even if you can, how would its quality
> ??>> be?
>
> DL>
> The farmed bluefin tuna raised off west coast of Mexico are
> smaller fish.
> Quality is fine but not much color (fat). I have seen them come
> in up to
> 140 lbs. The farmed bluefin coming out of the Mediterranean can
> be much
> larger . . . 300-400 lbs. and will have nice color.
> DL>
>
> I guess I did what should have done earlier and searched on
> Google for information on tuna farms. According to
> http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/innews/tunafarm.htm
> the "farming" really amounts to fattening up tuna caught in the
> wild and does not do much to help the world shortage of tuna.
> Apparently about half the traded blue fin tuna comes from
> Mediterranean tuna farms. I originally thought that the farms
> might be raising the fish completely.
>
> James Silverton.
>

This is in Walter's field, but yes, many "fish farms" as we know them
actually raise
fish originally caught in the wild. The rather long thread we just had about
eels ,
Unagi & Anago for example brought out the fact that unagi (freshwater eels)
are for the
most part farmed, while Anago (sal****er eels) are caught wild.
However, Unagi while farmed are also originally caught in the wild and then
raised on the farm.
While unagi farms have been around for decades, it was only 2 years ago that
the first full
cultivation (from egg to adult) of Unagi has been achieved.
M

James Silverton wrote:
> I guess I did what should have done earlier and searched on Google for
> information on tuna farms. According to
> http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/innews/tunafarm.htm
> the "farming" really amounts to fattening up tuna caught in the wild and
> does not do much to help the world shortage of tuna. Apparently about
> half the traded blue fin tuna comes from Mediterranean tuna farms. I
> originally thought that the farms might be raising the fish completely.

I think it does help the world shortage. You can take one fish and
fatten it up, or take 5 smaller fish and eat them up. I don't know the
ratio, but it would seem that farm-fattening would help some be reducing
the number fished to supply the same amount of meat.

--
Dan