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The Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus Thynnus) (or "tunny" as it was known in Britain at the time) is a large and powerful fish, arguably the strongest fish in the world, which is frequently the target of big-game fishermen. Off the Yorkshire coast in that era various records were made (including a world record) for size of tunny caught with rod ...
The Atlantic bluefin tuna is a close relative of one of the other two bluefin tuna species, the Pacific bluefin tuna. The southern bluefin tuna , on the other hand, is more closely related to other tuna species such as yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna , and the similarities between the southern and northern species are due to convergent evolution.
Thunnus (Thunnus) is sometimes referred to as the bluefin group and comprises five species: subgenus Thunnus (Thunnus) T. alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) – albacore; T. maccoyii (Castelnau, 1872) – southern bluefin tuna; T. obesus (Lowe, 1839) – bigeye tuna; T. orientalis (Temminck and Schlegel, 1844) – Pacific bluefin tuna
The bluefin tuna fishery started off with a bang in April when several giants were brought into the marinas in a hurry, filling the quota for giants in about two weeks. The fishery for the mediums ...
A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new ...
Thunnus tonggol is a species of tuna of tropical Indo-West Pacific waters.. It is commonly known as the longtail tuna [1] or northern bluefin tuna. [4] [5] The usage of the latter name, mainly in Australia to distinguish it from the southern bluefin tuna, leads to easy confusion with Thunnus thynnus of the Atlantic and Thunnus orientalis of the North Pacific.