In a windowless laboratory in downtown Baltimore, some tiny, translucent fish larvae are swimming about in glass-walled tanks. They are infant bluefin tuna. Scientists in this laboratory are trying to ...

Atlantic bluefin tuna used to be caught only relatively rarely, mainly by sports fishermen in North America. But this all changed in the 1950s when consumers of sushi, particularly in Japan, developed ...

MONTEREY – International cooperation is reeling the world’s most valuable fish back from the shores of extinction. The population of Pacific bluefin tuna ascended 1,000% between 2014 and 2022, ...

The early life stages of tunas play a pivotal role in the persistence and productivity of global fisheries. Tuna larvae drift within complex oceanic flows, encountering mesoscale features such as ...

Atlantic bluefin tuna circle a holding pen near Malta. The Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico were long thought to be the only locales where the massively valuable fish spawns. Alex Mustard / ...

Scientists are trying to raise prized bluefin tuna completely in captivity. An experiment at a Baltimore university is the first successful... Farming The Bluefin Tuna, Tiger Of The Ocean, Is Not ...