In 2025, the last full year of PacFIN data, West Coast commercial fishermen landed 247.6 thousand pounds of bluefin tuna worth $1.5 million, averaging $6.04 per pound. Ex-vessel value fell 12% from 2024, while average price per pound rose 2%. Ranked by total catch value, bluefin tuna is 27th among the 263 species and species groups reported to PacFIN and tracked by Cormorant.
Oregon and Washington landings of bluefin tuna total less than 1% of ex-vessel value (or are confidential) and are not charted.
All reported 2025 ex-vessel value for bluefin tuna came from California, though landings also occurred in Oregon and Washington in small or confidential amounts. It was landed in 13 of the 19 PacFIN port areas, 7 of them confidential, from San Francisco south to San Diego, with confidential landings as far north as Coastal Washington. San Diego led all port areas with 60% of value.
Port areas ranked by ex-vessel value with landed weight and price per pound.
7 port areas had only confidential bluefin tuna data and are excluded from these rankings.
Bluefin tuna landings are highly seasonal: 82% of reported 2025 landed pounds came in June–September, peaking in July.
1 month has only confidential bluefin tuna landings and is shown as empty.
Bluefin tuna is landed almost entirely with hook and line (96% of its 2025 West Coast ex-vessel value, based on PacFIN gear-group landings).
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Data sourced from PacFIN (Pacific Fisheries Information Network) and carries the limitations of that source, including reporting lags and confidentiality thresholds for landings with fewer than 3 vessels. Cormorant does not guarantee accuracy and is not a substitute for official fisheries reporting.