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Meanings of bluefin tuna in English
Largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics.
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Examples for "bluefin"
Examples for "bluefin"
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In the last 30 years, bluefin populations around the world have collapsed.
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Governments have rejected trade bans for bluefin tuna and polar bears.
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But people have long known more about cooking bluefin than keeping them alive.
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Prices for bluefin tuna imported from other regions are much lower.
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The bluefin stripped two hundred and fifty yards off the reel before sounding.
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Dog fish, too, are sometimes taken; as are conger eels, and horse mackerel.
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And around the same time, southerly species, such as chub and horse mackerel, slowly moved in.
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There are all varieties, from speckled trout and mackerel, up to conger eels, horse mackerel, and porpoises.
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We get them, sometimes, in the trawl-notshoals of 'em, but single fish, which we call horse mackerel.
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The two are alleged to have awarded horse mackerel quotas to Iceland's biggest fishing firm Samherji in exchange for bribes.
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But even Thunnus thynnus has to start off young and small.
Usage of bluefin tuna in English
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Governments have rejected trade bans for bluefin tuna and polar bears.
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Prices for bluefin tuna imported from other regions are much lower.
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The proposals include whether to list bluefin tuna as endangered.
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Angling Notes: The big bluefin tuna are on the move along the western coastline.
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But a red light is flashing over the bluefin tuna.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy said last year he favoured a clear trade ban on bluefin tuna.
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Monaco had proposed protecting bluefin tuna by listing it under appendix I of the CITES.
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Wasabi or Not to Be Until the 1970s, bluefin tuna was a literal trash fish.
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Resistance from Asian countries, particularly Japan, to ban trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna received most attention.
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But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
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For the first time, catch limits are being introduced for recreational fishers targeting southern bluefin tuna.
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Southern bluefin tuna are listed as critically endangered.
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France, Italy and Spain account for half of the world's total allowable catch of bluefin tuna.
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Last year, the European Commission accused France and Italy of breaching their quotas on bluefin tuna fishing.
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Inflate the price of bluefin tuna several fold, and you risk spurring demand to a threatening extent.
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He hopes to have a bluefin tuna flesh product (at the cellular level) available soon.