April 4, 2025 — Primetime Seafood President and Owner Rex Ito wants the company’s ranched bluefin tuna products to be seen as the “Wagyu” of the tuna world.
Ito is a more than 30-year veteran of the bluefin tuna industry, and has been a part of a shift in how the species is brought to market. He told SeafoodSource at Seafood Expo North America, which ran from 16 to 18 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., at the start of his career he was mainly selling wild caught tuna, and he now works in ranched tuna produced by Bluefina – of which he is the exclusive distributor.