In this study, the stomach contents of 116 albacore specimens, Thunnus alalunga were examined from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Fifty-five of the 116 stomachs examined were empty. The occurrence of major prey categories in stomachs were 95.1% cephalopods, 47.5% teleosts and 39.3% crustaceans with a total of 633 individuals belonging to 14 species identified. Heteroteuthis dispar from the order Sepiolida constituted 56.40% of the main cephalopod prey followed by Onychoteuthis banksii from the order Teuthida.