Bluefin tuna
Thunnus thynnus · Mackerel, garfish and shoal fish
Also called tuna, bft
A protected species. If you catch one, handle it carefully and put it back alive.
A huge, fast open-water tuna. In English waters it can be fished for only on a catch and release basis, from permitted vessels with trained crew.[1]
How to recognise it
When and where
- Found over
- open water[2]
Sources
These notes are a draft: we gathered them from the sources above and are still checking them. We don't work out best times for this fish yet. The size rules come from the same checked byelaws as every other fish.