Bluefin tuna definition
Examples of Bluefin tuna in a sentence
The inventories of the Company and its Subsidiary consists of Bluefin tuna, sardines for fish feed and other materials.
According to the Company’s books at March 31, 2010, the Company’s inventory of Bluefin tuna consisted of 964 metric tons.
Member States may allocate sectorial quotas to small scale coastal vessels authorised to fish for Bluefin tuna and shall indicate it in their fishing plans.
Due to the need of having a model that performs well at all age classes, samples used for an epigenetic clock in Atlantic bluefin tuna should include individuals spanning the age distribution of Atlantic Bluefin tuna, that not only youngest individuals (>1year), but also oldest (40 years).
Regarding otolith shape analyses, adult Bluefin tuna (>170cm) from the Gulf of Mexico and Mediterranean spawning areas (central, west and east) could be distinguished on the basis of otolith shape with a mean jack-knife classification accuracy of 78% (76% for Gulf of Mexico and 80% for Mediterranean).
The development of the epigenetic clock in the Southern Bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) (▇▇▇▇▇ et al.
In the two first cases 31 and 26 CpG sites were found to correlate with age from the 1,311 found in zebrafish (no information is yet available for the Southern Bluefin tuna case).
These individuals should have as accurate as possible age estimates, which is the case of Atlantic Bluefin tuna will be achieved by otolith ring reading.
Here, we evaluate the potential of epigenetic approaches for ageing Atlantic Bluefin tuna individuals.
Yet, obtained age estimations have quite high error margins (compared to otolith derived ages), which could prevent the implementation of this method for Atlantic Bluefin tuna assessment, including future close-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ recapture endeavours.