The longtail tuna, Thunnus tonggol, Bleeker, 1851 is
an economically important species from commercial and
recreational point of view. The species inhabit shelf and
oceanic waters of tropical and temperate regions of the
Indo-Pacific between 47° N and 33° S (Froese and Pauly,
2009) and generally occupy neritic areas of the oceans close
to land masses (Yesaki, 1994)
