It's a feedlot, not a "farm"

Let's stop calling it tuna farming. It's a feedlot for wild tuna rounded up with speedboats, dynamite and spotter planes. Tuna can not be bread in "farms", like shrimp or catfish. They can only be herded into pens and fattened up quickly. This is no different from a wild horse roundup, and ultimately a slaughter.

Someone else called it , "an underwater pig farm."

Granjas Atuneras S.A. is a sociedad of Venezuelan and Spanish interests, who are seeking to profit privately from a public resource. For each kilo of tuna produced, 20 kilos of frozen sardines will be fed to the caged tuna. In the wild, tuna eat once a week, but in the feedlot cages they'll be fed three times a day. All this environmental destruction will benefit the fish markets of Tokyo.

Your submissions are welcome, and we especially invite the opinions of native Costa Ricans.

For an review of the impact of the Tuna Farm, read Jonathan Haas' Letter to the Editor of the Tico Times by clicking here.