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The issue how to make wild puffer safe to eat has been carefully elucidated in the section on prevention. Now, harvest of wild puffer in Japan has recently outstandingly decreased on account of their overfishing since 10 years ago. Instead, puffer culture has increased resulting in 80% of total marketed puffer. 

For their culture, the puffer parents are paired with toxic wild female and nontoxic cultured male puffer. The eggs fertilized with nontoxic sperms are toxic 

Revival of a traditional food puffer liver Kimo  

Since Japanese Public Health Administration prohibited serving puffer liver, kimo as food in 1983, kimo (a traditional food) fans have been anxious to revive safe kimo. The kimo harvested in the above culture will be available for revival of a traditional food ( kimo ), which is expected to activate Japanese fishery industry because puffer livers have been discarded so far (Noguchi et al., 2004). 

METHOD OF SPECIES IDENTITY FOR PUFFER BY GENOME TECHNIQUES 

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