English:
Latin: |
Yellowfin Tuna
Thunnus albacares |
| Size + Weight: |
Average about 40-180 cm abt 5-20 kg |
| Biggest Angled Fish: |
175 kgs, Mexico 1977 by Curt Wiesenhutter |
| Catching Areas: |
25% Eastern Pacific
35% Western Pacific
25 % Indian Ocean
15% Atlantic Ocean |
| Catching methods: |
Mostly purse seining, also long-line |
| Share of caught tuna: |
About 35% or 1.100.000 m/t |
| Main Production Areas: |
India, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia
Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia
Spain, Italy |
| Life cycle: |
About 4-7 years |
| Major markets: |
Japan
Western-Europe
United States |
| Product Forms: |
Canned
Fresh (whole fish)
Frozen Loins
Fresh Fillets
Smoked |
Yellowfin is the second tuna species is terms of volume and popularity.
They cover enormous distances around the globe, and all stocks mingle. It is a big fish, which can swim at very high speed,
which may be one of the reasons why in some areas, dolphins and large full-grown yellowfin swim together. Through extensive
measures from the side of the tuna industry, and the creation of some very good monitoring programs. Fortunately the volume
by-catch of dolphins has become insignificant now in relation to the its natural mortality, and was below 500 dolphins on a global basis. |
