toothfish
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By 2018, the entire population of orcas in these waters had taught one another to feast on longline buffets, with whole groups that previously foraged on seals and penguins developing a taste for human-caught toothfish.
From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2023
And “Chilean sea bass”? Not a bass at all, but a rebrand of something called a Patagonian toothfish.
From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023
Southern Cross said in its lawsuit that that the Antarctic commission’s rules don’t bar fishing for Patagonia toothfish, as sea bass is also known.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022
Now toothfish, slimehead, yelloweye and witch are swallowed whole As “sea bass,” “roughy,” “snapper” and of course the “Torbay sole.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022
International agreements were adopted in late 1999 to reduce illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, which in the 2000-01 season landed, by one estimate, 8,376 metric tons of Patagonian and Antarctic toothfish.
From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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