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Tuna Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Tuna" has been searched for 25,380 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 125,210,432 miles!

This means that the average distance is 4,933 miles - that's 21% further than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1480 kg CO2 by plane, 1352 kg CO2 by car, or 276 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of farmed fish is estimated to generate roughly 13.63 kg CO2e in total (land use, farming, processing and packaging combined) - for most foods, that's far more than the transport emissions above. See what the research says about why what you eat usually matters more than how far it travelled. (Estimate for the closest matching category, Farmed fish, not this exact product - source: Our World in Data, based on Poore & Nemecek 2018.)

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
Thailand 6,042
Mauritius 2,674
Ecuador 2,041
Philippines 1,220
Ghana 1,207
Japan 1,094
Indonesia 1,010
Spain 813
Australia 762
India 713
United Kingdom 618
United States 586
Mexico 489
Maldives 375
Portugal 269
China 229
Madagascar 212
Ireland 207
Canada 200

Related Items

Due to the food types being user entered, these might also be of use:

Blue Fin Tuna, Bluefin Tuna, Can Of Tuna, Canned Tuna, John West Tuna, Princes Tuna, Sirena Canned Tuna, Sirena Tuna, Skipjack Tuna, Thai Tuna

Wondering how far this really gets you, and what it means for your own choices? See what the current research says about food miles, or find out whether food miles still matter in 2026.

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