On condition that, for lots of people, the overwhelming majority of the tuna that they’ll see is available in cans, they won’t envision a large honkin’ fish once they consider one. However all it takes is a pair journey reveals visiting large fish markets, particularly in Japan, and also you’ll begin to notice the sheer scale of a few of these slippery seafolk. What had been concepts of little wrigglers caught en masse in nets (although that also does occur) shredded into mush and slammed into cans are immediately changed with silvery, huge monsters being slid round on market flooring through hook, auctioned off to the very best bidder.
So, clearly, after watching a pair tuna-auction movies, as a result of I’m a human with the web and that’s one thing I can do now, I began to surprise: Who was the granddaddy of all of them? What tuna via historical past claims the crown for the largest ever caught? One might argue it’s a crown that comes with disgrace, as I’m certain it will slightly be the largest tuna by no means caught, however regardless. I needed a particular bluefin, hopefully with photograph proof, that will have despatched Tokyo’s most skilled mongers right into a reverent hush.
Properly, right here’s my reply. Pictured under is the most important tuna ever reeled in, caught in Nova Scotia by a person named Ken Fraser. A bluefin that tipped the scales, even after drying out on deck for 10 hours post-catch, at 1,496 kilos. Sufficient to make me say a phrase I’ve in all probability by no means uttered out loud earlier than, however feels excellent for this particular achievement: Holy smokes!
We’re speaking concerning the equal of hauling a rattling medium-small male American bison out of the ocean. Given 5 ounces of fish per can, this single monster might fill roughly 4,750 cans of tuna all by its lonesome (we’ll ignore the skeleton for my sanity). Primarily based on this worth of contemporary, wild bluefin tuna at $47.50 a pound, and once more ignoring that annoying skeleton, when it hit the market counter, this whopper may very well be price over $70,000. After all, large bluefin have offered for as much as $3.1 million at public sale in Japan, however it would not really feel honest to make use of this worth, on condition that these sky-high costs are principally a part of a convention of bidding wars for the consideration of shopping for the primary and largest bluefin of the 12 months.
Nonetheless, there’s little question that if this man confirmed up on the public sale, data could be set.
