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...endangered southern bluefin tuna, prized in Japan for its texture and taste as sushi and sashimi, that in-the-mood feeling happens in only one place: the warm waters of the Indian Ocean south of Java, Indonesia. But Stehr, a German immigrant who has built a seafood empire worth around $250 million, claims to be close to changing that. He's convinced he can sate the voracious international appetite for the oily, red flesh of southern bluefin without putting more pressure on diminishing wild stocks, now estimated to be less than 10% of their 1960 numbers...
...Their answer is a kind of fishy virtual reality, bringing the Indian Ocean indoors to a hatchery at the hamlet of Arno Bay, 120 km north of Port Lincoln, South Australia. In a breakthrough announced in March, Clean Seas claimed a world first by collecting fertilized eggs from breeding stock - about 20 tuna weighing 160 kg apiece and kept in a giant indoor tank. Sleek, dark shapes with a line of tiny bright-yellow fins down their back, they circle endlessly, apparently convinced they have traveled far to the north, to their spawning grounds. It may be fall outside, with...
...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...
...them. "We don't have the means," says Sosa Calo. "To reach affected areas we have to use the river. And most of the boats in the area were destroyed by the cyclone." One area in Laputta district called Pyin Sa Lu was hit badly by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which destroyed houses and almost certainly lives (the junta released no data), then struck again by Cyclone Nargis. This time, more than 10,000 people died...
...instrument, as with 1979's Orbits, which calls for 80 trombones. Brant found inspiration in all corners of his life--from his musician father, who was a professional violinist, to his world travels. His Pulitzer Prize-winning 2001 composition, Ice Field, was inspired by a childhood trip aboard an ocean liner navigating through icebergs...