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Health & Welfare
Achotines laboratory home to continuing studies of tuna early life history
The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Achotines Laboratory in southern Panama is the world’s only facility with nearly year-round availability of tuna eggs and larvae. A study is comparing the reproductive biology, genetics and early life history of yellowfin and Pacific bluefin tuna.