toothfish
Americannoun
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toothfish
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As far as he knows, there are only two Australian companies which catch and export Patagonian toothfish and mackerel icefish.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025
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
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 1998-99 season landed five to six times more Patagonian toothfish than the regulated fishery.
From The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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