La domestication des poissons: Le cas du thon rouge

Abstract

Bluefin tuna shows adaptative physiology features allowing life in a wide range of physical and climatic parameters like temperature, salinity and hydrostatic pressure, hence the species fulfil the main basic requirements for progressive domestication and rearing in captivity. The high mortalities recorded after handling and the losses observed after abrupt variations of environment in the cages, emphasised the extreme sensitivity to stress of tuna. As consequences, the progresses about the control of tuna biological cycle are very slow due to limited handling possibilities and tuna aquaculture is restricted to fattening of wild fish. At this time, bluefin tuna production progresses without domestication of the species.