13 Facts About Albacore

Albacore, known as the longfin tuna, is a species of tuna of the order Perciformes.

Albacore are pelagic predators that eat a wide variety of foods, including but not limited to fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods.

Albacore is a very economically important fish and is a target of commercial and recreational fisheries.

Albacore has a streamlined, fusiform body with a conical snout, large mouth, and big eyes.

Albacore has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical and temperate waters across the globe and in every ocean as well as the Mediterranean Sea.

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Albacore is a powerful, hard-hitting predator that forms mixed schools with skipjack tuna, yellowfin tuna, and bluefin tuna, sometimes around floating objects like sargassum weeds.

Albacore show a broad range of behavioral differences by region.

Albacore have asynchronous oocyte development, that is their immature egg cells do not develop at regular intervals.

Albacore is a prized food, and the albacore fishery is economically significant.

Albacore tuna is the only species that can be marketed as "white meat tuna".

Albacore are managed by four tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations, include the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, and the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission .

Albacore caught by the American albacore fishing fleet off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California have far lower mercury levels than in previous years.

Albacore caught in this region show methylmercury levels well below the 1.