TUNA BIOLOGY

SKIPJACK

YELLOWFIN

BIGEYE ALBACORE BLUEFIN

YELLOWFIN

Yellowfin tuna are torpedo-shaped with dark metallic blue backs, yellow sides, and a silver belly. They have very long anal and dorsal fins and finlets that are bright yellow. Yellowfin can live up to six or seven years. They are highly migratory and are found throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. They form schools with other tunas like skipjack and bigeye, and are also known to associate with dolphins only the Eastern Central Pacific. Yellowfin are able to breed year-round. The Yellowfin stock is green rated by the ISSF stock status model. 

RD FOODS does supply (MSC) skipjack tuna caught in Western Central Pacific