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Costa Rica seems set to enter the business of tuna farming, a practice widely condemned among environmentalists. There is a plan afloat to build the world's first yellowfin tuna ranch at the mouth of the Golfo Dulce. The area is known for its diverse ecosystem and prized as a sportfishing mecca. Critics had hoped the Environment and Energy Ministry (MINAE) would stop the project, but it did not. Now all that is lacking to get the farm underway is a permit from the Instituto Costarricense de Pesca y Acuicultura (INCOPESA).
Peruvian biologist Eduardo Velarde told Intrafish, a seafood-industry news service, in August 2005 that he had hoped to have cages for the operation installed by year's end. That was not to be, but Velarde is still in position to boast this will be the first yellowfin tuna farm in the world. The project is a development of Granjas Atuneras de Golfito SA, with capital from Venezuela and Spain.
The operation contemplates building ten circular cages, 50 meters wide and 20 meters deep, grouped 2.8 km from the coast near Punta Banco. The total concession is to be 5 km long...
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