The Simon’s Town harbour is known for frequent great white and Cape yellowtail visits, but this tuna visit is brand new news to us…Thanks again for sharing Tudor Caradoc-Davies!
Simon’s Town tuna visit
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The question is what species is that? Is it a juvenile bluefin with weird colouration due to the shallows and being over the sand or is it a lost longtail/northern bluefin? Tuna experts?
I suspect this is an Allthunnus fallai (Slender tuna):
http://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2540
http://www.fishbase.se/summary/91
Pretty cool to see one inshore like that!
Super interesting Owen Li, your suspicion looks spot-on to me, it’s a species I was not familiar with at all, thank you for weighing in.
Happy to help! 🙂
Yep that’s a slender – they come out between the snoek even up the west coast North of Dassen