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Tirion here: Pacific bluefin tuna. In the map on the left, I’m the light blue tuna that pops out of the bluefin scrum in February 2003, swims to Japan, then swims BACK to California in July 2003. Seven months later, I head to Japan again. My tag recorded how far I swam: more than 45,000 miles. Most humans never journey that far in a lifetime.
We bluefin are warm-blooded giants: up to 1,500 pounds (684 kg) and 15 feet (4.58 meters) long. That’s another human longer than the tallest human. In hot pursuit of a tasty meal of herring, anchovies, squid or eels, we hit speeds up to 60 mph and dive to 600 feet.
Our tasty dark red flesh makes us the most expensive fish in the world. Someone paid $174,000 for one of us in 2001. It’s no surprise that we’re being overfished. My Atlantic cousins -- Thunnus thynnus -- are in dire straits. Researchers, including those at TOPP, are trying to get a handle on us Pacific bluefin, to figure out how our populations are coping.
My Posts:I thought that it might be exciting for our readers to provide an angler’s perspective on the fishing and tag deployment experience off Greymouth, New Zealand. I received the following email fr
After two intensive weeks of fishing, the 2008 bluefin tuna satellite tagging program had made good strides towards the goal of deploying 25 pop-up satellite tags. Although New Zeala