Skipjack

• It is the world's most heavily caught tuna by volume, and the one that goes into most tins of light tuna.
• It is short-lived for a tuna: it lives no more than twelve years, compared with forty for the bluefin tuna. That makes its populations respond quickly to fishing, for better and for worse.
• In tropical waters mature females spawn almost daily.
• It forms very tight schools sorted by size and gathers beneath floating objects, something fisheries exploit with fish aggregating devices.
• It is identified by the four to six dark longitudinal stripes on its belly, which no other tuna has.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bony fish)

Habitat and environment

Tropical and warm-temperate oceanic pelagic waters worldwide, between 0 and 260 m and between 15 and 30 °C; absent from the Black Sea

Sexual maturity

3 years

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuwonus_pelamis