govt may get involved in tuna breeding?

Mr Crean acknowledges that Australian tuna fishermen have a legitimate grievance with the Japanese, saying Port Lincoln in particular was hurt by the inaction of the former conservative government in Tokyo.

"The problem for them was that the previous government did hardly anything to stop the overfishing, and then the other thing that we've got to do is to actively work with those tuna farmers down there, because they've developed a process for breeding bluefin tuna," he said.

"But Japan is heavily into the technology in this field. If we can get some cooperation around that, it might actually be a good news story between Japan and Australia as to how to address this problem going forward."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/27/2724880.htm