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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Answer 1

Bluefin vs Skipjack or even some species that are “tuna” but not real tuna.

I think they did a study and some brands of canned tuna contained zero tuna. It was some other random pelagic fish.