Sentence examples for tunas from inspiring English sources
In colour, tunas are generally dark above and silvery below, often with an iridescent shine.
Because of this vascular system, tunas are unique among fishes in their ability to maintain the temperature of their bodies above that of the surrounding water, often between 5 and 12 °C (9 and 21.7 °F) above ambient water temperature.
The seven species of tunas in the genus Thunnus are the northern bluefin tuna (T. thynnus), albacore (T. alalunga), yellowfin tuna (T. albacares), southern bluefin tuna (T. thynnus maccoyii), bigeye tuna (T. obesus), blackfin tuna (T. atlanticus), and longtail tuna (T. tonggol).
The canned meat of albacore and yellowfin tunas is one of the world's most popular seafoods.
Sardines, tunas, mackerels, and prawns are among the principal products of the industry.
Pachyrhizodontoids may well have been large fast-swimming predators of the open sea, a niche which is now filled by the tunas (Thunnus).
On March 28th the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, an intergovernmental group, signalled that it may tighten the quotas on bluefin-tuna catches in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean at its meeting in November.
In the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the management of bluefin tuna is in the hands of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT and the results can scarcely be described as good.
In some respects, the proceedings of the fisheries commission, founded in 2004, are coming to resemble those of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, the regional fisheries management organization that has presided over decades of overfishing of the Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna.
The Atlantic bluefin tuna is emblematic of the endangered migratory species; its numbers are well below the target set by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, and the catches in the Eastern Atlantic are too high.
It said it would accept lower quotas for bluefin tuna, but said they should come from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), which currently regulates the trade.
