Kyokuyo, Maruha Nichiro exporting farmed bluefin to US and EU

Fully farmed bluefin tuna is now being exported from Japan to the European Union and the United States, the Nikkei Asian Review reported on 17 September. Kyokuyo already exports its closed-cycle bluefin tuna to the U.S.A. and will add Europe as a destination. Maruha Nichiro plans to do the same, according to Nikkei. Both companies raise bluefin tuna bred from artificially-hatched eggs. Japan’s Kinki University mastered the process in 2002 and began sales in 2004, and several Japanese companies…