Length could be 6-10 feet
Weighs about 1500lbs
Can dive 4000 feet below
Able to swim long distances
Countercurrent Exchange - blood vessel that helps them to stay in a certain temperature in the water gives them advantage to hunt for food.
3 types:
Atlantic bluefin tuna
Pacific bluefin tuna
Southern bluefin tunaAtlantic bluefin: found in Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic
Pacific bluefin: found in the Pacific Ocean
Food: They eat anything that is small such as zooplankton when they are young. The bigger they are, they eat things such as smaller fish, eels, mackerel.Bluefin Tuna move to another area so that they can reproduce.
It helps with reproducing as well as the what they need for food.
Method of reproducing: Both the male and female let out the amount of eggs and sperm into the water together. It helps fertilized the eggs as well as it helps the chances of the eggs not to become preys.Bluefin are one of the most overfished fish in the world (Endangered). …show more content…
Could go extinct if overfishing of bluefin isn’t stopped.
Some bluefin tuna are caught at a young age, unable to reproduce.Japan has the biggest market for raw fish, Tsukiji market.
Buyers in the market would spend a lot of money for the right fish, bluefin tuna in this case.
Example:One purchase at the market came out to US$118,000 for a sushi restaurant according to Justin McCurry’s article.
If overfishing isn’t solved, the future generation(s) of the fish market will be in deep trouble.
Asia, especially Japan, love seafood.
Fish is part of their culture since Japan is Surrounded by
Weighs about 1500lbs
Can dive 4000 feet below
Able to swim long distances
Countercurrent Exchange - blood vessel that helps them to stay in a certain temperature in the water gives them advantage to hunt for food.
3 types:
Atlantic bluefin tuna
Pacific bluefin tuna
Southern bluefin tunaAtlantic bluefin: found in Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic
Pacific bluefin: found in the Pacific Ocean
Food: They eat anything that is small such as zooplankton when they are young. The bigger they are, they eat things such as smaller fish, eels, mackerel.Bluefin Tuna move to another area so that they can reproduce.
It helps with reproducing as well as the what they need for food.
Method of reproducing: Both the male and female let out the amount of eggs and sperm into the water together. It helps fertilized the eggs as well as it helps the chances of the eggs not to become preys.Bluefin are one of the most overfished fish in the world (Endangered). …show more content…
Could go extinct if overfishing of bluefin isn’t stopped.
Some bluefin tuna are caught at a young age, unable to reproduce.Japan has the biggest market for raw fish, Tsukiji market.
Buyers in the market would spend a lot of money for the right fish, bluefin tuna in this case.
Example:One purchase at the market came out to US$118,000 for a sushi restaurant according to Justin McCurry’s article.
If overfishing isn’t solved, the future generation(s) of the fish market will be in deep trouble.
Asia, especially Japan, love seafood.
Fish is part of their culture since Japan is Surrounded by