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Re:Taming the Wild Tuna - Why farmed fish are taking over di... by sfrank2147 on Saturday November 15, 2014 @02:23PM (#8612389)
The one in 30 million statistic is crazy to me! That means that the surviving fish need to average 30 million children in their lifetime to sustain the current population - if they stay adults for 2 years, that's 41,000 children per day! Can someone shed light on how that's possible?

Note also that it's 1 in 30 million babies that actually hatch that survive, not just 1 in 30 million eggs.

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Re:Taming the Wild Tuna - Why farmed fish are taking over di... by maxerickson on Saturday November 15, 2014 @02:59PM (#8612487)
Wikipedia looks like it makes sense:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_bluefin_tuna#Life_histo...

They are reproductive for more than 2 years and lay millions of eggs in each breeding season.

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