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Meanings of bluefin 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 tuna"
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        Governments have rejected trade bans for bluefin tuna and polar bears.
        Reuters
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        Prices for bluefin tuna imported from other regions are much lower.
        The Guardian
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        The proposals include whether to list bluefin tuna as endangered.
        Reuters
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        Angling Notes: The big bluefin tuna are on the move along the western coastline.
        The Irish Times
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        But a red light is flashing over the bluefin tuna.
        The Guardian
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        Dog fish, too, are sometimes taken; as are conger eels, and horse mackerel.
        For Name and Fame; Or, Through Afghan Passes
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        And around the same time, southerly species, such as chub and horse mackerel, slowly moved in.
        Reuters
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        There are all varieties, from speckled trout and mackerel, up to conger eels, horse mackerel, and porpoises.
        Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870
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        We get them, sometimes, in the trawl-notshoals of 'em, but single fish, which we call horse mackerel.
        For Name and Fame; Or, Through Afghan Passes
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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.
        Reuters
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        But even Thunnus thynnus has to start off young and small.
        The Irish Times
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        In the last 30 years, bluefin populations around the world have collapsed.
        Wired
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        Governments have rejected trade bans for bluefin tuna and polar bears.
        Reuters
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        But people have long known more about cooking bluefin than keeping them alive.
        Wired
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        Prices for bluefin tuna imported from other regions are much lower.
        The Guardian
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        The bluefin stripped two hundred and fifty yards off the reel before sounding.
        Amagansett
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        The proposals include whether to list bluefin tuna as endangered.
        Reuters
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        Scientists struggle to work out how big bluefin stocks are.
        Reuters
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        Angling Notes: The big bluefin tuna are on the move along the western coastline.
        The Irish Times
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        But a red light is flashing over the bluefin tuna.
        The Guardian
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        President Nicolas Sarkozy said last year he favoured a clear trade ban on bluefin tuna.
        Reuters
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        Though far from complete, their work has made bluefin aquaculture, once nearly unthinkable, a possibility.
        Wired
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        That's left the seas nearly barren of breeding-age bluefin.
        Wired
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        Sadly for bluefin, they got a lot more popular.
        Wired
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        Monaco had proposed protecting bluefin tuna by listing it under appendix I of the CITES.
        Reuters
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        Wasabi or Not to Be Until the 1970s, bluefin tuna was a literal trash fish.
        Wired
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        More than enough to put the demon of that giant North Carolina bluefin to rest.
        Amagansett
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