FARM-RAISED BLUEFIN TUNA SPAWN CONTROVERSY
August 07, 2008
August 07, 2008
BALTIMORE, Aug. 7 -- The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute issued the following news release:
It was '80s band REO Speedwagon who insisted on its album cover that "You Can Tune a Piano, but you can't Tuna Fish." But recently, marine scientists around the world have been proving the rockers wrong--they're "tuning" bluefin tunas' biology, implanting hormones into the endangered fish to spur them to reproduce in captivity.
"It's li . . .
It was '80s band REO Speedwagon who insisted on its album cover that "You Can Tune a Piano, but you can't Tuna Fish." But recently, marine scientists around the world have been proving the rockers wrong--they're "tuning" bluefin tunas' biology, implanting hormones into the endangered fish to spur them to reproduce in captivity.
"It's li . . .