{"id":140635,"date":"2021-05-21T16:02:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T07:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140635&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-05-21T16:02:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T07:02:45","slug":"kyushu-becomes-important-region-of-bluefin-tuna-farming","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kyushu-becomes-important-region-of-bluefin-tuna-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyushu Becomes Important Region of Bluefin Tuna Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyushu is becoming an important producer of farmed bluefin tuna or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kuromaguro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Over sixty percent of the kind was produced in Kyushu prefectures during 2020. Nagasaki Prefecture produced the most significant portion at 82 farms. Kagoshima and Oita were also two of the top five prefectures of bluefin tuna production, with 36 and 11 farms, respectively. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfa.maff.go.jp\/j\/press\/saibai\/210331.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.jfa.maff.go.jp\/j\/press\/saibai\/210331.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-140636\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kuromaguro.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kuromaguro.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kuromaguro.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kuromaguro.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kuromaguro.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1023&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kuromaguro.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/suisanjapan.jfa\/posts\/1363018797368356\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MAFF facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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Over sixty percent of the kind was produced in Kyushu prefectures during 2020. Nagasaki Prefecture produced the most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":140636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-140635","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/140635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}