YELLOWFIN TUNA / ATÚN ALETA AMARILLA
    SCIENTIFIC NAME: Thunnus Albacares
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    Vernacular names:
    Es/Sp: Rabil
    Fr/Fr: Albacore
    In/En: Yellowfin Tuna

    Local names:
    • Ecuador: Albacore, Yellowfin Tuna, yellowfin, Tuna
    • Perú: Tuna, Yellowfin tuna, tuna, yellowfin tuna.
    • Colombia: Albacore, Tropical Yellowfin Tunaa
    • Chile: yellowfin tuna
    • Costa Rica: yellowfin tuna
    • Mexico: yellowfin tuna
    • Nicaragua: yellowfin tuna
    • Panama: yellowfin tuna

    Tradenames: Albacore, Yellowfin, Tuna, Yellowfin tuna.

    simile international importance: Thunnus thynnus, T. obesus, T. alalunga

    fishing season: All year, especially in the second semesters.

    Geographic location: Its distribution ranges from 32° 43'N and 37° 00' S in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

    habitat and biology: It lives in oceanic waters, it is an epipelagic species, from the surface to 100 m depth and in temperatures between 18 ° C and 31 ° C. It generates all year round. It feeds on fish and crustaceans, cephalopods such as crabs (euphylax dovii).

    Size: Its length is 130 cm average (TL), in artisanal fishing, specimens of up to 67 kg predominate..

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