skipjack in English

noun
1
a small tuna with dark horizontal stripes, widely distributed throughout tropical and temperate seas.
About 80 percent of exports consist of frozen, dried, and salted skipjack tuna ; canned fish; dried shark fins; and fish meal.
2
a sloop-rigged sailboat with vertical sides and a flat V-shaped bottom, used chiefly on the east coast of the US.
Their motor-less sailing boats are called skipjacks , and are allowed to fish for oysters freely.

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1. Skipjack remains healthy.

2. The favourite fish is skipjack tuna, either dried or fresh.

3. Skipjack tuna, nori, and aji are among the ocean products.

4. Juvenile Bigeye will form schools with juvenile yellowfin and skipjack tunas.

5. Katherine Lisa Brailing a load of skipjack aboard in the late 70s off of Panama

6. Canned light tuna is made mostly from skipjack tuna, a smaller species that's lower in mercury

7. Albacore is one of the smaller tuna species, reaching sizes between skipjack and yellowfin

8. Salmonidae, flat fish, tunas, skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito, herrings, cod, sardines, sardinella, Brisling or sprats, haddock, coalfish, mackerel, dogfish and other sharks, eels, sea bass and hake)

9. In federal waters: Anglers targeting Billfish, swordfish, shark, bluefin tuna, bigeye tuna, albacore tuna, yellowfin tuna and skipjack tuna are required to have a federal HMS Angling Permit

10. Katsuo Dashi (かつおだし) is made from katsuobushi (かつおぶし, 鰹節), dried and fermented Bonito/skipjack tuna that is shaved into thin flakes

11. From an experiment with ordinary dart tags, we have found evidence of the effect of fish-aggregating devices (FADs) and of islands on the movements of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) around the Solomon Islands.

12. Bigeye tuna is exploited in increasing quantities as associated catch of the spring and summer pole and lines fishery in the northwestern Pacific, and of the purse seines fishery in the eastern Pacific, both directed primarily at skipjack and yellowfin tuna

13. ‘Yellowfin and Bigeye tuna are graded on the same criteria but not with the same intensity.’ ‘Some species, such as Bigeye tuna, utilize the heat exchanger only when they enter colder water.’ ‘It says Bigeye tuna is slow-growing and more vulnerable to exploitation than skipjack and yellowfin tuna.’

14. Products Maximum amount of allowance within the meaning of the first and second indents of Article 20 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3687/91 Yellowfin tuna, whole, weighing more than 10 kg 128 Yellowfin tuna, whole, weighing not more than 10 kg 103 Skipjack or stripe-bellied tuna, whole 80 Albacore, whole 111

15. Month || Day || Latitude N/S || Longitude E/W || Bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus or maccoyii || Yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares || (Bigeye tuna) Thunnus obesus || (Albacore) Thunnus alalunga || (Swordfish) Xiphias gladius || (Strip marlin) (White marlin) Tetraptunus audax or albidus || (Black marlin) Makaira indica || (Sailfish) Istiophorus albicans or platypterus || (Skipjack) Katsuwonus pelamis || (Miscellaneous fish) || Daily total (weight in kg only) || Saury || Squid || Live bait || (Other) ||

16. Member States shall ensure that the total fishing effort for bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna, skipjack tuna and south pacific albacore in the area of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (the Convention Area) is limited to the fishing effort provided for in fisheries partnership agreements between the Community and coastal States in the region.

17. Month || Day || Latitude N/S || Longitude E/W || Surface water temp (oC) || Fishing effort No of hooks used || Bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus or maccoyii || Yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares || (Bigeye tuna) Thunnus obesus || (Albacore) Thunnus alalunga || (Swordfish) Xiphias gladius || (Strip marlin) (White marlin) Tetraptunus audax or albidus || (Black marlin) Makaira indica || (Sailfish) Istiophorus albicans or platypterus || (Skipjack) Katsuwonus pelamis || (Miscellaneous fish) || Daily total (weight in kg only) || Saury || Squid || Live bait || (Other)