Where does the Bigeye tuna live?

Thunnus obesus has 75,178 records in 113 countries and territories, from 1895 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

75,178 records
113 places
79 years recorded
— class

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesScombridaeThunnus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

Place	Records	Share
United States	33,233
Portugal	9,835
ZZ	1,684
Australia	1,462
Cuba	1,347
United Kingdom	1,144
Bahamas	1,020
Norway	1,020
Seychelles	709
Chile	651
France	617
Netherlands	561
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	558
Spain	510
US Virgin Islands	509
Germany	410
Mexico	356
Denmark	320
Faroe Islands	300
Greenland	268
Haiti	263
Mauritania	244
Puerto Rico	244
Venezuela	240
Indonesia	226
Canada	207
Ireland	162
Gabon	119
Iceland	103
Ecuador	102
Senegal	101
British Indian Ocean Territory	94
Ghana	85
Dominican Republic	72
India	70
Equatorial Guinea	67
Brazil	63
Côte d'Ivoire	56
Liberia	54
Suriname	53

Showing the top 40 of 113 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Scombridae.

Atlantic mackerel, Mackerel

278,988 records

Chub mackerel, Spanish Mackerel

Skipjack tuna, Oceanic Bonito

Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.