Did you know bluefin tuna can grow to 10 feet long and weigh up to 1,200 pounds? The bluefins in our Open Sea exhibit aren’t quite that big, but they still give visitors a sense of how majestic these ocean giants are!
Pacific bluefin tuna are some of the largest and fastest fish in the ocean. They’re also severely overfished throughout the world. To help these majestic animals recover, avoid eating bluefin tuna.
Huge conservation win! We’ve been pulling for Pacific bluefin tuna for decades—through research and policy work and @seafoodwatch. Now these spectacular ocean animals have a chance to bounce back!
The nose knows! Scientists are sniffing out how endangered bluefin tuna navigate across ocean basins. The tuna may be detecting the Earth’s magnetic field with mighty magnetite mineral crystals in their nostrils!
There’s a lot we can learn about life in the sea from the superlative tuna family. The Pacific bluefin tuna may be down 97% of its historic abundance—but there’s still hope! We are hard at work with international partners to help these tuna recover.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is the only aquarium in North America to display bluefin tuna! While the world’s top bluefin experts and stakeholders assemble for day two of the Bluefin Future’s Symposium, watch these fabulous fish swim in our Open Sea exhibit.
In order to save endangered bluefin tuna we need to understand them.* That’s something tuna researcher Chuck Farwell does very well. Learn more about his work.
*we also need to avoid eating them for now
Tuna nerds (tunerds?) unite! From Jan. 18-20, the Aquarium and Stanford University will bring the world’s top bluefin tuna experts and stakeholders together for the first time ever at the Bluefin Futures Symposium. Stay tuned for conference news and cool facts about this magnificent and endangered fish.
Warp speed, engage! Bluefin tuna can fold their fins against their bodies to reduce drag and accelerate faster than a sports car!
Our tuna scientists hone their “fish sense” to work with the powerful bluefin tuna and apply tracking tags. Thanks to their research, we’re collecting data to help protect these majestic superfish.
We recently added a bluefin tuna to our renovated Open Sea exhibit–at more than 150 pounds, it’s the largest one we’ve ever moved from our new Animal Research and Care Center (ARCC) in Marina! We also added three yellowfin tuna. Learn more about tuna research and conservation at the Aquarium.
Thank you to all the tunerds (tuna nerds!) who brought their knowledge and passion to the first-ever Bluefin Futures Symposium! It will truly take a village to conserve bluefin tuna. Learn how bluefin experts and stakeholders came together to tackle some of the big problems threatening this fantastic fish.
Have you played @fathomverse yet? This cozy sci-non-fi game for ocean explorers was created by our research and technology partners @mbari-blog . By playing you can interact with real underwater images to improve the artificial intelligence that helps researchers study ocean life.
Now available for download on the App Store and Google Play! Read more at https://mbayaq.co/FathomVerse
