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Wild Bluefin Tuna Belly Block - Otoro - Super Frozen Sashimi Grade

Last updated: 2023/10/19

The Fish Society

The most prized and revered cut of bluefin tuna – allow us to introduce our sublime Otoro. It is cut from beautifully marbled belly loins, with their deep-red hue, making it the height of luxury in the world of sushi and sashimi. Our bluefin tuna arrives from our dear friends over at Bluefin Belear in Mallorca, an artisan fishery with decades of experience in the art of sustainably catching tuna. 

All our Otoro is super-frozen at -60 degrees to preserve its unrivalled quality, ensuring consistency of that famous melt-in-your-mouth sensation associated with only the finest quality tuna.

Frozen
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
Pole-and-line
United Kingdom
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At A Glance

Superfrozen at -60c

All our Otoro is super-frozen at -60 degrees to preserve its unrivalled quality, ensuring consistency of that famous melt-in-your-mouth sensation associated with only the finest quality tuna.

Calling all Sashimi lovers

This is the fattiest cut from the belly loin, which is perfect for sashimi!

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Mallorca pole-and-line bluefin tuna

Atlantic Ocean
In Mallorca's bluefin tuna fishery, they utilise one-by-one catch methods. This involves targeting individual tuna using specialised gear such as fishing rods, handlines, or trolling lines. Often a combination of these is involved in the process of landing a large bluefin tuna.
Spain
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
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The Fish Society

The Fish Society are a small company with 25 employees, based near Guildford. Guildford is forty miles from the sea and a hundred miles from the nearest fishing port, but it’s where The Fish Society's founder, Alistair Blair, lived when he started The Fish Society 25 years ago. And it’s where fish arrives every morning, despatched by 150 suppliers the day before via the UK’s very efficient fish delivery network. Fish landed and auctioned on Day 1 in Cornwall, The Hebrides, Aberdeen and Norfolk, and indeed in the big French port of Boulogne can be processed and frozen on Day 2.

United Kingdom
2
Years of IPNLF Membership
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Pole-and-line

This fishing method provides the most selective targeting of tuna possible, with minimal bycatch of non-target fish and marine wildlife like dolphins, turtles and sharks. Pole-and-line fishing targets schools of tuna near the ocean surface, and therefore only needs to use short lengths of line on each pole, typically  5-10m.
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

The commercial value of bluefin tuna is the highest for all fish species, with one singular bluefin tuna reaching $3.2 million USD during an auction in a Japanese fish market, in 2019.
Atlantic Ocean
Thunnus thynnus
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