Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)
Tune female lays a million eggs per year. At the beginning,they feed on plankton and then with smaller fish, crabs, squid and shellfish. The yearly growth of 60cm and can grow over 2m and get weigh over a 150kg.
When he has two years old and whwn it reaches 100cm length, become sexually mature and the average lifetime of her is short, about 5-6 years. She likes the warm seas and usually it is the habitat of the Pacifik, from 40 parallel north to 40 south parallels.
It is a very fast and ravenous predator, that feeds with whole range of other fish even with its own little tunas.
This kind of tuna is one of the few warblooded fish, which enables exceptional works of muscle and achieve speed and to 80km/h.
Her body is solid when swimming so when swings the tail have a greater effect on swimming. Because it’s constant movement, she’s consumers large quantities of oxygen, so that sets just the ecologically clean sea.
Commercial catch Yellowfin tune is not limited and the year of 2006. amounted to 430.000 tons. Endangered species of tuna is her twin Bluefin tuna( Thunnus Thunnus), of which differs only by the visual dorsal and ventral fins.
