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ADIPOSE FIN [9 records]

Record 1 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Commercial Fishing
Universal entry(ies)
Coregonus sp.
Latin
Leucichthys sp.
former designation, Latin
DEF

Any of various food fishes... of the genus Coregonus that resemble the salmon and trout in having an adipose dorsal fin but have a smaller and nearly or quite toothless mouth and that inhabit clear lakes and streams of No. America, Europe, and Asia.

OBS

Family: Salmonidae.

OBS

whitefish: trade name recommended by the "Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales" and by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Pêche commerciale
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Coregonus sp.
Latin
Leucichthys sp.
former designation, Latin
OBS

Famille : Salmonidae.

OBS

cisco, corégone : noms français commerciaux normalisés par l'OLF et le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales.

OBS

Le cisco ou corégone regroupe ici diverses espèces de Coregonus, par exemple : artedii (cisco de lac; lake herring,lake cisco ou tullibee en anglais), sardinella (cisco sardinelle; least cisco en anglais) et laurettae (cisco de l'Alaska, cisco de Béring; Bering cisco en anglais), à l'exception du grand corégone (C. clupeaformis).

Key term(s)
  • hareng de lac
  • corégone cisco
  • poisson blanc

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Peces
  • Productos del mar y de agua dulce (Ind. alimentaria)
  • Pesca comercial
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Coregonus sp.
Latin
Leucichthys sp.
former designation, Latin
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Record 2 2021-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aquaculture
DEF

The removal of a fin [that] serves as a marking method of fish.

OBS

E. g. adipose fin, dorsal fin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aquaculture
DEF

[...] enlèvement d'une nageoire [qui sert de méthode de marquage des poissons].

OBS

P. ex. nageoire adipeuse, nageoire dorsale.

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aquaculture
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

First, hatchery workers anesthetize the fish … They then clip the adipose fin and hand a container of clipped fish to the tagger, who operates a tagging machine that injects a tiny coded wire into the cartilage of the fish's snout. … The tags are so tiny that they have to be examined under a microscope to see their etching.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aquaculture
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aquaculture
CONT

Traditionally, an adipose fin clip was used to externally mark salmon and steelhead tagged with a coded wire tag so that these fish were readily identifiable upon adult recapture … More recently, the use of the adipose fin clip has been expanded to allow for selective fisheries, where marked fish, typically of hatchery origin, are selectively harvested while unmarked fish are released …

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aquaculture
DEF

Méthode de marquage des poissons, surtout des salmonidés, par l'enlèvement de la nageoire adipeuse.

Spanish

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Record 5 2020-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
DEF

... a chinook salmon that has a healed scar in place of the adipose, pelvic or pectoral fin, or in place of a maxillary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
DEF

Saumon quinnat qui présente une cicatrice fermée à la place de la nageoire adipeuse, pelvienne ou pectorale ou à la place d'un maxillaire.

Spanish

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Record 6 2020-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Anatomy
  • Fish
DEF

A soft fleshy rayless modification of the posterior dorsal fin found in certain fishes ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anatomie animale
  • Poissons
DEF

Excroissance charnue dorsale en forme de nageoire, située en avant de la nageoire caudale, n'ayant ni rayons, ni épines.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Anatomía animal
  • Peces
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Record 7 2016-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
Universal entry(ies)
CONT

The galaxiids are trout-shaped, fully naked species lacking scales; the dorsal and anal fins are directed to the rear and are located just before the caudal fin. There is no adipose fin... there are about eight species on New Zealand and neighboring islands...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
CONT

Les galaxiidés forment une famille, de l'ordre des clupéiformes.

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aquaculture
DEF

A small length of magnetized steel wire, etched with a binary code and injected into the nasal cartilage of salmonides or the muscle tissue of crustaceans.

CONT

Juvenile salmonids have been tagged with coded wires in northwestern North America for about 20 years... By this method, a 1-mm length of wire is given a binary code and inserted with an injector into the nasal region of a young fish. The adipose fin is removed and the tagged fish are then released for their seaward migrations. The returning adults are identified by the missing adipose fin. Their snouts are then removed and passed through a magnetometer to locate the wire, which is removed and decoded. A dissection microscope is used to decode the binary notching on the wire.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aquaculture
DEF

Petite pièce métallique (1 mm) magnétisée portant des encoches correspondant à un code, implantée dans le cartilage nasal de jeunes poissons et servant pour le marquage.

CONT

La technique de marquage de poissons par injection, dans le cartilage nasal, de micromarques magnétisées codées [...] commence à être utilisée en France [...] sur des alevins de salmonidés [...]

Spanish

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Record 9 1984-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Restaurant Menus
OBS

whitefish : any of various food fishes(family Salmonidae) esp. of the genus(Coregonus) that resemble the salmon and trout in having an adipose dorsal fin but have a smaller and nearly or quite toothless mouth and that inhabit clear lakes and streams of No. America, Europe, and Asia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Menus (Restauration)
OBS

corégone: Genre de poisson des lacs, de la famille des salmonidés (...)

Spanish

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