Why are whole tunas bought for so much when canned tuna is one of the cheapest foods you can get?

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Why are whole tunas bought for so much when canned tuna is one of the cheapest foods you can get?

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Different fish.

Skipjack are often used in cheap canned tuna. They reproduce after 1 year, live for 4, grow to around 3 ft 70 lbs.

Bluefin are your expensive sushi fish. They don’t reproduce until they’re 5-15 years old, live into their 30s, can grow to nearly 10 ft 1,400 lbs.

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