Scientific First As Italians Cultivate Threatened Red Tuna; 'So Many Years Of Research'

Bari, 25 July (AKI) - An Italian university has made a major scientific breakthrough in regard to farming the highly-sought red tuna which is threatened with extinction. For the first time in the world, scientists at Bari University in the southern region of Puglia have cultivated the larvae or eggs that may make it possible to save the species and enable commercial farming to take place. Research for the project known as 'Allotuna' was conducted by the university's faculty of veterinary medicine and financed by Puglia's regional government. The researchers say they have successfully produced 20 million larvae from tuna in captivity. Gregorio De Metrio, who specialises in the anatomy of aquatic and domestic animals, supervised the project. "It is the first time that we have obtained a result of this magnitude, after so many... [read full story]