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...Through his company Clean Seas Tuna, the former French Legionnaire and seaman has engaged fish-breeding experts to create just the ambience to get southern bluefin feeling frisky...
...Tuna is an ocean fish. They don't like to be confined," Stehr says in a still-strong German accent. "That's how you gotta keep it." The fish are persuaded they're on a long journey by changes in light, temperature and current. Without leaving the tank, they swim out of the Australian Bight, south over the continental shelf and then west and north, around Western Australia and up to their spawning grounds near the Timor Sea. They've now spawned three times and produced eggs and larvae. The next step is to feed the millions of larvae...
...Some in the tuna industry are deeply skeptical that Clean Seas will succeed. Even if it does, they doubt the fish it produces will fetch a high enough price to make the operation pay. The naysayers - those who spoke to TIME chose to remain anonymous - are wrong, argues Peter Dundas-Smith, chairman of the Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre, a government-industry joint venture...
...There's a huge demand for high-quality species like tuna, he says, and with world population heading for 7 billion, consumption of seafood is growing. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation says demand for fish will rise dramatically in the next few decades, and that aquaculture will be crucial to supplying an extra 40 million metric tons of seafood a year by 2030. "He will crack it; it's only a case of when," Dundas-Smith says of Stehr. "Marketing will be a challenge, but how can you not sell fish when there's a worldwide shortage...
...picture); and how this year my wardrobe consists of lux sweaters in various shades of blue and grey and moccasins by Ermenegildo Zegna—I look back at that picture and wonder if I’m even the same person.In a state of panic, I fish out those old cargo pants—still in my closet, I’m very sentimental—and try them on to see if the me I see is anything like the me I am today. But then, I take a closer look at the mirror, go back...