bigeye
Noun
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Noun
bigeye (plural bigeyes)
- Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes.
- Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus.
- 2001, Jules Verne, F. P. Walter (translator), 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas,
- There were Port Jackson sharks with a brown back, a whitish belly, and eleven rows of teeth, bigeye sharks with necks marked by a large black spot encircled in white and resembling an eye, and Isabella sharks whose rounded snouts were strewn with dark speckles.
- 1986, Robin Mahon, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report and proceedings of the Expert Consultation on Shared Fishery Resources of the Lesser Antilles Region,
- The relatively large eyes may enable the bigeye to feed at lower light intensity than other tunas.
- 2007, William H. Bayliff, Jacek Majkowski (editors), Methodological Workshop on the Management of Tuna Fishing Capacity,
- The percentages of bigeye in the catches were relatively high during the early to mid 1950s, but then levelled off at less than 5 percent of the total catches.
- 2001, Jules Verne, F. P. Walter (translator), 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas,
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