Health & Welfare
Achotines lab studies diets for larval, juvenile yellowfin tuna
Research at the Achotines Laboratory in Panama has been inconclusive involving probiotic treatments of first-feeding larval tuna and the rotifers they eat.
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.
Intelligence
Larval tuna research mimics ocean conditions in lab
Research at the Achotines Laboratory on the southern tip of the Azuero Peninsula of Panama centers on larval tuna biology.