What fish is this?
I joined a forum called What's This Fish and asked this question with no response. However, I thought someone here might know or might be able to tell me how to get an ID for this fish.
Photo was taken off Mana Island, Fiji, in February 2018. This is a still from a video that I took, and so I might post that later as well. These fish were in rather shallow water close to the beach and practically swam right under me. They were the largest fish I saw there but still not all that big. My first thought was that they were yellow fin tuna, but I'm not sure that the fins are the correct proportions. They did swim by rather quickly, and I only saw them once.
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Linda, I guess I doubted it because I did not expect to see them, and also they were rather small and did not have an additional dorsal fin that I expected, but they could have that fin flattened, or it could be less pronounced in juveniles.
Pompano is an Atlantic fish, and so it would not be found in the South Pacific.
It does look like this fish, however, and I have bought a lot of yellowfin tuna that was caught in Fiji. In fact, most tuna in southern California seems to come from Fiji. I just never expected to be swimming with a school of tuna, as I associate them with deeper waters. The next fish I saw after them was a small ray, and I got a good video of that.
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Here's a photo of a yellowfin tuna in Fiji from a fishing site:
I think it looks pretty similar, although this is a much larger fish. Adults probably look significantly different from younger fish.
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Yes, please send my photo to a diver for another opinion. I was thinking that it might be something else, but I have very limited knowledge of what tuna look like in the wild.
The main difference I see in my photo and the fishing site photo is the tail, and I do think that this could be attributed to my fish being juvenile, but that is just my guess.
This photo from Australia looks more like what I saw.
Yellowfin tuna off Australia
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