Rare bluefin tuna washes up on United Kingdom beach, prompts concerns of migration changes

This is something you literally don’t see every day.

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“I was confused to see it so far inland but we see dolphins here as well so it seems like bigger fish are coming in more often,” she explained. “It’s quite strange to see one that size. That’s about £100 ($133) worth of fish.”

The Atlantic Bluefin tuna were previously common in the United Kingdom, but they have since migrated to other areas.

John Hourston, founder of the Blue Planet Society, spoke with SWNS about the discovery of the fish.

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“To see them wash up on the shore of a sea loch is new to me,” he said. “We’re increasingly seeing these massive fish and it’s a wonderful sight. Unfortunately, that one is dead, it’s thought to have been predated on by a seal or hit by a boat.”

He continued, “It’s due to warming and linked to climate. The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation is a warming which oscillates – it comes and goes. The reason tuna were around in the North Sea and other areas up to about the 1960s is linked to this changing temperature in the Atlantic.”

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Hourston thinks this may be a more common occurrence in the coming years.

“It may be that we have Bluefin tuna fish here to stay,” he said.

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