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Pacific Bluefin Tuna

  • Posted By
    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Environment
  • Published
    24th Aug, 2022

Context

The biomass of the Pacific Bluefin Tuna has increased and is second-highest in recorded history.


About Pacific Bluefin Tuna

  • Pacific Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus orientalis) is a predatory species of tuna found widely in the northern Pacific Ocean.
  • They are predatory and mainly eat squids and fish, such as sardines and anchovies, saury, herring, pompano, mackerel, hake, other tunas, and occasionally red crabs and krill. 
  • They have black or dark blue dorsal sides, with a greyish-green iridescence.
  • Their bellies are dotted with silver or grey spots or bands.
  • They have a series of small yellow fins, edged in black, running from the second dorsal fin to the tail.
  • They have relatively small eyes compared to other species of tuna.
  • Most of the U.S. catch of Pacific bluefin tuna is within about 100 nautical miles of the California coast.

Tuna are fish that belong to the tribe Thunnini, a subgroup of Scombridae (the mackerel family). The tribe consists of five genera and 15 species, most of which fall under the genus Thunnus.

 

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