Welcome to the Oregon Albacore Commission’s web site. It contains information designed to introduce to you the West Coast’s premium tuna – Pacific ‘Troll Caught’ Albacore… Bon Appétite!

 

As information about radiation from Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant emerge, concerns about our Pacific albacore have been raised. The following statements address these concerns.

The Albacore tuna caught by the U.S. troll & pole fleet are migratory warm water fish. They journey widely across the Northern Pacific Ocean following patterns of warm water and feed. 10 years of tagging data show that these fish do not come anywhere close to the cold waters of Japan at this time of year and it is believed that these albacore tuna stocks are currently many hundreds if not thousands of miles away from Japan at this time.

The area where contaminated water was discharged into the sea is along the Japanese shoreline and that water has not transited far off-shore.

This diminishing radioactivity will likely dilute to undetectable levels along the Japanese coast and the migratory off-shore albacore tuna are expected to be completely unaffected by this event.