More than 1,300 giant bluefin tuna, each weighing over 100 kilograms (220 pounds), were caught off the coast of Yeongdeok ...

In April of 2025, a group of anglers off the coast of Galveston, Texas caught a monster-sized bluefin tuna. The previous ...

Rejecting a petition from environmental groups, the Trump administration announced Monday that it will not list Pacific bluefin tuna — a torpedo-shaped fish that can grow to 1,000 pounds and ...

Fish meat is examined in a lab. Bluefin tuna are worth a lot - up to $3 million for a single fish, to be exact. The large price tag is due, in part, to the fish’s status as an endangered species ...

Bluefin tuna die on ship, many miles from shore, their cells slowly decomposing even when frozen or on ice. No, to get an uncontaminated sample, Wyrwas has to head out to sea.

Pacific bluefin tuna for sale for $2.99 per pound at the fish market in San Diego. That shockingly low price does not reflect the deeply threatened state of the bluefin population.

The Pacific bluefin tuna moved from "vulnerable" to "near threatened" due and was noted as being “severely depleted at less than 5% of its original biomass,” the IUCN said at the time.

Pinchin's eponymous kings are Atlantic bluefin tuna, marine predators that can weigh well over a thousand pounds — "imagine a grand piano shaped like a nuclear weapon," as Pinchin puts it.

Sadly, bluefin remains on the menu in some restaurants. The sushi market keeps prices for tuna high — a single tuna sold for $177,000 in a fish market in 2010 — and encourages illegal and unreported ...