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Dorado (US: / d ə ˈ r eɪ d oʊ /, also UK: /-ˈ r ɑː d oʊ /) is a constellation in the Southern Sky. It was named in the late 16th century and is now one of the 88 modern constellations . Its name refers to the mahi-mahi ( Coryphaena hippurus ), which is known as dorado ("golden") in Spanish , although it has also been depicted as a ...
[citation needed] It is a popular food fish in Australia, usually caught and sold as a byproduct by tuna and swordfish commercial fishing operators. Japan and Hawaii are significant consumers. The Arabian Sea, particularly the coast of Oman, also has mahi-mahi. At first, mahi-mahi were mostly bycatch in the tuna and swordfish longline fishery ...
Mahi mahi are also known as dorado or dolphin fish. Description. Bull ... mahi-mahi were known mainly as bycatch in tuna and swordfish longline commercial fisheries ...
The swordfish (Xiphias) has been used by astronomers as another name for the constellation of Dorado. [44] The word swordfish is used as a password in the 1932 Marx Brothers film Horse Feathers. It has since appeared as a password in many films, television series, books, and videogames. [45]
Wahoo are regularly taken as a bycatch in various commercial fisheries, including longline fisheries for tuna, billfish, and dolphinfish (mahi-mahi or dorado). It is also taken in tuna purse seine fisheries, especially in sets made around floating objects, which act as a focal point for a great deal of other marine life besides tuna.
The swordfish ‘unexpectedly jumped towards Manfrini and pierced her chest’, says acting head of disaster management agency Surfer, 36, dies after being impaled by swordfish in Indonesia Skip ...
Salminus brasiliensis, also known as the golden dorado, dorado, river tiger, dourado, or jaw characin is a large, predatory characiform freshwater fish found in central and east-central South America. [2] Despite having Salminus in its name, the dorado is not related to any species of salmon, [3] nor to the saltwater fish also called dorado.
The swordfish has the longest bill, about one-third its body length. Like a true sword, it is smooth, flat, pointed and sharp. The bills of other billfish are shorter and rounder, more like spears. [40] Billfish normally use their bills to slash at schooling fish. They swim through the fish school at high speed, slashing left and right, and ...