If you don’t mind paying the very high prices, there is a category of tuna that wipes all of those into the trash: Imported Spanish or Italian ventresca tuna, from the fish’s belly. They’ve got up very much in price in the past year but a brand like Ortiz, easy to find in the US, is sublime. Make certain you are looking at the can inside the red box–that is their ventresca; they also sell tuna from other parts of the fish. These are caught off the northern Coast of Spain in the Bay of Biscay. I just brought home about 25 cans from various producers that I bought in Spain last month.
Ooops…sorry, I see that I wrote about Ortiz tuna in much earlier posts on this thread. It’s now gone up to about $13 a can, or more, in Spain, but still marvelous, as is the belly of the red tuna, atun roja, caught off the coast of southern Spain.
