In April of 2025, a group of anglers off the coast of Galveston, Texas caught a monster-sized bluefin tuna. The previous state record was a whopping 876 lbs., but the bluefin hoisted aboard the ...

Pensacola angler David Shepard experienced the catch of a lifetime on Tuesday evening, reeling in a 107-inch bluefin tuna weighing in at 721 pounds. The fish is only a few inches short of Florida’s ...

A Japanese sushi company left the first auction of the New Year in Tokyo with a fish the size of a motorcycle, paying $1.3 million for the huge catch. The buyer, Onodera Group, bought the 608-pound ...

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Everyone on board helped land the fish. They used multiple gaffs and a tail rope to boat the big tuna. David Esslinger and a group of buddies headed offshore from Galveston, Texas around daybreak on ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A Port Arthur man and his friends reeled in their 'white whale' last week, well in this case a massive bluefin tuna that one would be forgiven in mistaking for a whale. The Bluefin ...

The top bidder at a Tokyo fish market said they paid $1.3 million for a tuna on Sunday, the second highest price ever paid at an annual prestigious new year auction. Michelin-starred sushi ...

It wasn’t always bluefin. Albacore came first, just as A comes before B in the alphabet. Back in the ‘60s, while I was still in my single-digit years, I remember seeing long-finned albacore swimming ...

Editor's Note: This story was updated to accurately reflect the most current information regarding the fish's official weight. Pensacola angler David Shepard experienced the catch of a lifetime on ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A Port Arthur man and his friends reeled in their 'white whale' last week, well in this case a massive bluefin tuna that one would be forgiven in mistaking for a whale. The Bluefin ...