Atlantic bluefin

noun

variants or Atlantic bluefin tuna

: bluefin sense 2

Then in the early 1960s four West Coast purse seiners steamed east and opened a major commercial fishery on Atlantic bluefins.

—Ted Williams, Audubon, July/August 1992

What was in the water that day was a congregation of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a fish that when prepared as sushi is one of the most valuable forms of seafood in the world.

—Paul Greenberg, New York Times, 27 June 2010

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

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