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or Atlantic bluefin tuna
Definition of Atlantic bluefin
: 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
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“Atlantic bluefin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Atlantic%20bluefin. Accessed 21 Jun. 2021.
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