albicore

The Ohua too, a pink scaled fish, shaped like a trout; the opukai, beautifully striped and mottled; the mullet and flying fish as common here as mackerel at home; the hala, a fine pink-fleshed fish, the albicore, the bonita, the manini striped black and white, and many others.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

An albicore a few cables-lengths to port had taken a flying leap from the flashing sea, turned a complete somersault and vanished.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

When they came to the place where Dick had hooked the albicore, he hung on his oars and told her about it.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

He had escaped the jaws of the dog-fish, and the jaws of the dog-fish are a very wide door; he had escaped the albicore and squid: his life had been one long series of miraculous escapes from death.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

The albicore would make a frantic dash down the lagoon, hoping, perhaps, to find in the open sea a release from his foe.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

A dark fin rippled the water; and as Dick, pulling on his line, hauled his catch closer, a monstrous grey shadow stained the depths, and the glittering streak that was the albicore vanished as if engulfed in a cloud.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

Wearying of the spear, we trolled for swordfish with hook and line, or used the baitless hook to entice the sportful albicore, or dolphin, whose curving black bodies splashed the sea about us.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

These smaller fish, which are a species of sprat, assemble in incredible quantities, and at night-time are wont to crowd together in prodigious numbers about the coral boulders before mentioned, in the same manner that ocean-living fish will sometimes attach themselves to a ship or other moving substance, as some protection from pursuit by bonito, albicore, and the fish called

Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884

It was all wonderfully new to the boy, and sometimes, when the men were allowed to catch a shark, or try to harpoon dolphins, or albicore, beautiful mackerel-like fish, with the pronged implement they called the grains, he found himself wondering why he had objected to go to sea.

Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

"Oh, all sorts: bonito, and albicore, and flying-fish, sometimes dolphins and sharks."

The Golden Magnet George Manville Fenn 1870