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

Question

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

Part of the answer is the size of a can or tin of tuna is about 5 ounces. And not all of that is meat. let’s say there’s 3 ounces of actual meat in a can. that’s roughly 1/5 of a pound. Even bluefin tuna can wholesale for $20/lb so that’s only $4 for 3 ounces using wholesale. Good quality tuna where I live is about $2/lb. But the real answer is albacore tuna is used in canned tuna and it’s much less expensive wholesale than Bluefin.