Biology and population studies: Diet

Albacore are top carnivores and they opportunistically prey on schooling stocks of sardine, anchovy, mackerel and squid. Other authors have found that in the North-east Atlantic, albacore diet is mainly composed of fish, mainly Trachurus trachurus (Ortiz de Zárate 1987) and, to a lesser extent, of crustaceans (Hassani et al 1997).