saury

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Synonyms for saury

slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters

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Sapporo: The season's first batch of sauries, a fish called sanma in Japan, was traded at a record-high 500,000 yen ($4,495US) per kilogram, or about 70,000 yen ($630) per fish, on Wednesday in an auction at the Sapporo Central Wholesale Market in Sapporo.
About 200 kilograms of sauries were unloaded Tuesday at the Port of Kushiro and transferred to the market.
Unlike the great white, however, the porbeagle has a white patch on the trailing edge of the dorsal fin and eats mostly bony fish like mackerel, herring, lancetfish and sauries.
Productivity declined in 1998 as well, when sauries comprised approximately 65 percent of chick diet.
This has led to the revelation that whales are preying on large quantities of sardines, sauries and other fish.