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

It is not the same fish. Tuna is a group of fishes, not a single species.

The canned variant is most of the time albacore ( longfin tuna). The expensive variant is Bluefin tuna.