Pacific bonito


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Noun1.Pacific bonito - common bonito of Pacific coast of the AmericasPacific bonito - common bonito of Pacific coast of the Americas; its dark oily flesh cans well
Chile bonito, Chilean bonito, Sarda chiliensis
genus Sarda, Sarda - bonitos
bonito - any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
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The impacts of species such palm ruff, Eastern Pacific bonito and common dolphfish on other groups are almost unnoticeable.
Interacciones troficas en el ecosistema de surgencia del norte de Chile, ano 1997
The cruise concluded with measurements and biological samples along several transects off southern California, as far south as the Coronados Islands, and special studies of the biology of and fisheries for mackerel (chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus, formerly known as Pacific mackerel), Pacific bonito, Sarda chiliensis, and Pacific barracuda, Sphyraena argentea.
Cruises of the Albatross off San Diego and Other Parts of Southern California, 1889-1916
(5) In the "Others" category, rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulatus, and bait fishes such as mackerels (Scombridae), triggerfishes (Balistidae), Pacific bonito, Sarda chiliensis, etc., were dominant species.
The 1996 U.S. purse seine fishery for tropical tunas in the Central-Western Pacific Ocean

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