Kawazu, Masanori
Tawa, Atsushi
Ishihara, Taiki
Uematsu, Yuki
Sakai, Saburo
Article History
Received: 25 November 2019
Accepted: 5 June 2020
First Online: 4 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All Pacific bluefin tuna specimens were caught and handled by commercial fisheries (long line and purse seine fishing) in Japan and in Mexico, and they were not killed for this study. The catch of this species is controlled by the Japanese Government based on the assessment of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) in Japanese waters and by the Mexican Government based on the assessment of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC 2014–2017) in American-Mexican waters.