The Philippine SEAFDEC Aquaculture Center Achieves World’s First Natural Captive Spawning of Mackerel Tuna – Aquaculture Magazine

The Philippine SEAFDEC Aquaculture Center Achieves World’s First Natural Captive Spawning of Mackerel Tuna – Aquaculture Magazine

They make it a promising candidate for sustainable aquaculture The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) in Tigbauan (Iloilo, Philippines) has reproduced naturally in captive conditions a mackerel tuna. This is the first time that scientist achieve it. The tuna (Euthynnus affinis), known also as kawakawa and in the Philippines as ‘tulingan’, spawned at the research center without the use of hormone inj…