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dorsal fin and by having the finlets yellowish instead of blue. The belly 

 of this fish is marked by twelve pale indistinct cross bars of a grayish 

 silvery color. These stripes are narrower than the areas between them and 

 are replaced both above and beneath by round spots. The smaller spots 

 were also reported as alternating with the bars. 



This fish is a bit puzzling to scientist and will not rest securely as a 

 species until more is known about it. 



This tuna is known to inhabit the waters about Japan and the 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



Long-Finned Albacore 



Also known as the Atlantic or European Albacore, Albacore, Germon, 



Long Finned Tunny, Alalunga, and Atum Aboodor (Portuguese) 



75-7 Germo alalunga (Gmelin) 



Plate I, Figure 6 



From Jordan & Evermann 



The body of this tuna is bluish in color above and silvery beneath. 

 The sides below the lateral line are marked with rather indistinct, pale, 

 longitudinal streaks. Although it resembles the blue fin tuna, it may be 

 distinguished by the pectoral fins which are very long and which make 

 up over one-third the length of the body. The finlets are all dark and 

 are without yellow coloring. One of the smallest of the tunas, it usually 

 weighs about fifteen or twenty pounds, but it may weigh as much as 

 eighty pounds. 



Barnhart reports that "this is the fish that made possible the growth 

 of the tuna-packing industry. Originally it was the only fish used for 

 canning, and it was not until the demand was greater than the supply 

 that attention was turned to other tunas." 



