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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Albacore tuna, which is the delicious stuff in most of the cans we buy, is also considered "threatened". Doesn't seem as glum as it is for the Bluefin, but it's not good either. I had to look it up.
Might be willful ignorance on my part since I love a tunafish sandwich and lived on tunafish with KD when i wore a younger man's clothes, but I always figured the ocean must just be swimming with Albacore, since it's so cheap.
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Albacore is the more expensive kind. The Skipjack, which is the cheap stuff, is pretty plentiful.
Albacore can also be a sustainable fishery, depending on which stock is hunted.
A major issue with Bluefin is that it's way bigger than Albacore and Skipjack. So it takes longer to grow and mature. This makes it more vulnerable.