Dogtooth Tuna

Photo: Jens Sommer-Knudsen · CC BY-NC

Large dogtooth tuna — some exceeding 70kg — hunt along the wall edge in small packs, occasionally making explosive rushes at schools of fusiliers that cascade like silver rain across the reef face. These apex pelagic predators give the drop-off a genuinely wild energy, and their presence alongside the hammerheads in the northeast monsoon season elevates San Miguel Bay into serious large-pelagics territory.