Breeding Southern Bluefin Tuna | Australia with Simon Reeve | BBC 

Why can't all business have visions like this one, helping the environment and aiding conservation as well as making a profit. Let's hope it works, the world needs more ideas like this.

This reminds me of Jurassic Park. The old guy is so proud lol

My favorite shot was the contrast of how the light bounced off the “Strictly No Cameras” sign. Amazing.

Put an Oculus Rift on their heads and have them think they are swimming for miles. Tuna matrix here we come!

"So we try to restrict access to it so that's why none knows" *Says Clear Seas Tuna Research Centre on the side and gives tour of entire facility to put on RU-vid*

The same breakthroughs have been made in the ornamental fish trade also. Ie captive breeding tangs, gobies, blennys and the like instead of depleting the oceans stocks whereas several others, but mainly clownfish, (nemos) have been captive bred for years already. Great news for the Oceans Wildlife. 👏👏

"oh look they just changed the light Bob. I feel riiight at home. Soooo authentic"

Incredible work theyre doing thank you for this video

Pure awesomeness on so many levels.

On of the big goals, if they can get there is to be able to breed more fingerlings than they can farm. These extras could maybe be released back into the wild to help rebuild natural populations.

This is great thank you for showing us

This is wild I would love to see this in person!! I like the idea behind it all also.

Thank you sir

Thanks for sharing

amazing work

Great work.

Thanks

i really hope they succeed.

Totally awesome...

would like an update on how they're coming along!

Good on ya guys

That is an astonishing feat. The facility is impressive alone, then add in the fish they have in there!

Fantastic

I’d love an update on how it’s going

Simon you should look at insect farming as a protein source for aqua culture - both for prawns and fish. This is the key to making aqua culture viable at an enormous scale and removing the pressure on krill and other sources of fish meal which are currently being caught in the wild oceans. Can give you real insights on this for a program.

amazing

This makes me appreciate nature😊

Keep up the great work 🌎👍🏼

nice effort

His comparison to the cattle industry is very interesting. He doesn't mention the negative aspects either. I'd like to know what resources have to go into a relatively small operation like this. Small in relation to the scale required in a few decades from now.

This is awesome, watch out for new farms popping up near you like this one, could be the breakthrough we need cor presefving wild fish stocks

Good job☺☺👍👍👍👍👍👍

That was cool

Amazing. Now the tuna has established a beach head. All they need now is to construct a breathing apparatus, then the lions would be tuna feed

Whoa, that's impressive, because I had no idea tuna was so difficult to breed.

You want to save it, put a world wide commercial band for 5 years. In that 5 years you will be surprised at how many come back.

I wish for the success.

perfect project want someone study the piology and behaviours of tuna fish

"Chunars" lol

Also 3:16 you can see a fish slick on the surface of the water. When fish eat a lot they vomit a little. This guy must be feeding them a lot

We love tuna here in Australia 👍😊 so this is a good news!! Go,Go guys!! Hope this isn’t for Exports only..

Good idea.

Its not sad its cool!

Wish i can fishing there.. 😂😂

Organic tuna..lol 😁

A great idea. I hope they are successful in tuna farming. Most of the salmon currently sold comes from salmon Farms and it's not wild caught in the ocean

some pretty gnarly anchor worms on some of those fish

multi millions on breeding tuna, pay me a tenner and a cig and I’ll do it in my bath tub

Fish farming makes total sense for many reasons.

Strictly No Cameras Camera man is savage

Bumble bee tuna, bumble bee tuna, and bumble bee tuna to you as well, sir.

elegant business

If people can find a way to make Aquaculture and Aquaponics better, then both of those field can literally save the world from hunger. Fish are pretty much the only thing that you can grow in that extreme of densities because they stack on top of each other in the water column. On top of that, you're now providing an alternative source of fish to wild caught, which will in turn bring back wild populations. The reason that people have such negative connotations associated with aquaculture is because in the 70's/80's, a TON of anti-fish farming propaganda was released, and all the fish farmers thought it would blow over (so they never rebutted). Now, though, that we're learning how to raise fish better, the feed is getting better, etc. I don't understand why people still have these feelings. It's like people (like alexandra morton) don't want this to work, when it could do enormous good if perfected. Fish farms produce FAR less contamination than poultry, swine and beef farming. The Feed conversion rate in Fish farming is more effective than all of those aswell, and a lot of the "fish farms produce toxic fish" articles are either based on old evidence, or contain biased samples. I'll agree we have a ways to go before this is perfect, but in order to get there we need fish farms to be able to perform research and take some risks without the public trying to shut them down constantly, or treating all of them the same.

2:53 "But at the moment they're all gonna die so I'm a miserable wreck."

I would like to register myself for this tuna business

**strictly no cameras** *got a whole documentation on the facility*

Friendly reminder: the southern bluefin tuna is critically endangered. Austrailia fish this species of tuna, by the use of purse seine. However, they are not taken onboard but taken to huge tanks, as in the video, to be fattened up. The problem is that, besides that we still fish the southern bluefin, plenty of juvenile tuna is taken from the stock. The overall effect of this is at the moment not fully known. I would be careful to say that a measure like this actually help the conservation of the bluefin tuna. A decrease in the amount of catch for a considerable time (5 years at least) is probably a much better alternative

Did they think of making another huge pool with another water temperature, bond with this one through a strong water current that make the tunas think they are traveling or something like that? As far as i think i know, they guide themselves through the electromagnetic fields of the earth, maybe they could recreate that aswell, and change the temperature of the original pool while they are in the tunnel for them to believe they actually changed of area

The fish’s waste products can be harvested through de salinization (separated with a flocculant that doesn’t bind to salt or remove it from the solution, re diluted in fresh H2O and the flocculant released by electrolytic cathodic/anodic target material accumulation, and used as a hydroponic nitrogen source for plants

Any updates?

In just gonna get it out... Hunger games!😂😂

No windows just to save money lol

I would love to jump in there and start eating!!

farmed caviar taste better than the real thing. I don't see why farmed tuna wont. As long as they're not pumping too many antibiotics. Luckily tuna are pretty resilient so they won't need to

pushing the water past the fish a few hours a day. It changes the chemistry of the muscle and ultimately the taste

What the current situation of this project? Is there anyway to contact with this researcher? If you have any please share with me...

can we get update on this tuna

Same

respect to ,,the tuna mans,,...

Fist look amazing big tank and big fish

Wow! A not entirely propaganda piece from the BBC. Please continue.

That’s all well and good and an amazing achievement. But the bottom line should be good water quality and a sustainable ecosystem for the planet. It’s not just the top of the food chain that’s in trouble. You have no food chain without the small critters. Taking food out of the oceans to feed captive bred tuna is perhaps just as bad as taking adults from the wild.

Where is the update!?

As much as I can eat a whole fish to myself, those fins and shadows scare the daylights out of me.

Mantaf 👏👏👍

Love the term Wild.... These fish are so wild in their natural habitat of the ocean... Lol

Ooo i want to jump in that tabk and give them a hug of course id take one of these fresh tuna

It's like aliens farming 15 billion of us so 10 billion of us could live peacefully on earth

how has this been going?

They should have done track lighting to mimic the sun going across the sky.

*STRICTLY NO CAMERA* Keeps capturing

Are you able to transfer them and keep them alive? I would like to buy one.

I think tuna farms are way to expensive at the moment but good luck, everyone likes some kind of tuna

Great job. Breed them. The more the better.

I really hope they get this done, wild bluefin tuna need a break.

The only problem I have with this is, how can you sell this as wild tuna?

Each government licensing ocean fishermen should have to pay for a facility like this. They would then put farm raised fingerling tuna back into the ocean to replenish the fish caught prior.

Wow they are so chubby reminds me of seals or penguins

What's the update on this

I’m going fishing in that tank 🎣

A couple years back i would have thought this was impossible. I thought the only place for a tuna was the ocean. Unless i catch one from the ocean , then the only place for it is on the table with soy sauce and vinegar (Ahi)

Does anyone else suddenly want sushi?

Fabulous I am from Sri Lanka and would like to know more about this breeding process and eggs.

I would believe this also circumvents the issue of there being so much mercury in commercially caught Tuna

How are they doing right now?

Finally mercury free tuna I hope

this makes me clap my hand

I think this would work with tissue culturing, even if you can't produce the tuna in mass it can still provide stem cells for culturing.

didn't you see the 'no cameras' sign?!

I would love to do this for smallmouth bass. They do not grow as large as tuna so would need to consume as much food over the life of the bass to create a pound of fish meat. But they are as good as tuna in my mind when fried. Feed them minnows grown on duckweed and enjoy the food.