Kyodo News Agency, japan's Tokyo Ocean University fish farming professor Yoshizaki Gokuro's team announced the results of the research results in the international scientific journal online edition on the 15th, saying that the world's first successful proliferation of large numbers of reproductive stem cells as rainbow trout eggs and sperm basis through test tubes. Eggs and sperm were made from only 1 stem cell of male rainbow trout and 1700 were hatched. These rainbow trout have successfully grown to adulthood, and the research results are expected to become a technology for protecting precious aquatic resource fish and achieving mass production.
Yoshizaki expressed his willingness to contribute to the production of aquaculture and the protection of endangered species. "Salmon and trout companions who are close to rainbow trout can be used for conservation in a few years," he said. We will strive to apply this technology to bluefin tuna in about 5 years. ”