The tuna explosion could be linked to Covid-19 when the Pacific Fleet stopped catching juvenile fish, Sheehan said. “And ...

“The current record for a Pacific bluefin tuna caught on a 24kg line is 197.5kg, and we estimate that fish at 250kg, so it would have smashed the world record for sure,” he said. Further ...

However, they missed out on the highest bid on record ... bluefin tuna: Pacific (Thunnus orientalis), Southern (Thunnus maccoyii), and Atlantic (Thunnus thynnus), the latter of which is the largest.

The biggest fish ever caught on a rod and line in UK waters was an 851lb (386kg) bluefin tuna caught off Whitby in 1933, setting a record which still stands to this day.

The highest-priced bluefin tuna at the first auction of the year was 333.6 million yen, set in 2019, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government, which has kept records since 1999. Last year ...