Bluefin tuna are an ocean-going fish that grow up to 10 feet long and can weigh as much as 1,200 pounds. Unlike almost all fish, bluefin tuna are warm-blooded and able to regulate their body ...

Found in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, bluefin is often considered the most luxurious variety of the fish, especially when it comes to sushi and sashimi.

and yellowfin tuna – that you’ll typically find in canned tuna. It’s estimated that Japan eats roughly 70 to 80 percent of the world’s Pacific bluefin tuna, according to the WWF.

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ICCAT's Special Meeting in Cyprus concluded with an agreement to increase the Atlantic bigeye tuna catch limit to 73,000t for 2025, an 18% increase from the current level ...

In 2019, a bluefin sold for more than 300 million yen, the highest price since 1999. A sushi restaurant chain operator paid more than 300 million yen for a bluefin tuna in 2019. Fishery season in ...

A 120.8kg northern bluefin tuna landed by angler Ian Rouse in a two-hour sea battle on Waitangi Day was late on Friday still holding its place as the heaviest catch in Hawke’s Bay four-day Megafish ...

A bluefin tuna caught off northern Japan fetched 207 million yen ($1.31 million) in the inaugural auction of 2025 at Tokyo’s Toyosu wholesale fish market on Jan. 5. It was the second-highest ...