By Tanner Lorenz

 The description of the bluefin is it is sleek gray and can weight up to 1,000 lbs. When the female bluefin tuna matures at age 8 it releases about 30 million eggs into the ocean. The bluefin can live up to 40 years old. The habitat the tuna lives in is warm and cold water. Bluefin can make dives up to 550 fathoms and can reach speed of 40 mph.

 Kingdom Animalia  Phylum chordata  Class actinopterygii  Order perciformes  Family scombridae  Genus Thunnini  Species T. thynnus

 The Atlantic bluefin tuna is a close relative to the pacific bluefin and the southern bluefin tuna.  the pacific bluefin tuna the pacific bluefin tuna The southern and the pacific bluefin tuna.

The bluefin tuna eat sardines, herring, mackerel, and crustaceans Fishing for tuna. Most tuna caught today is by commercial fishermen. They use rod and reels harpoon and longlines. If you catch a tuna you get paid by the color of the meat. How oily it is and the fat in it. People fish for them because there is good money to be maid fishing for tuna.