The species of fish landed include blue tang, doctor fish, parrotfish, grunts, triggerfish, snappers and groupers.

It flies through the ocean on its pectoral fins, gets lift, powers its movements with a lunate tail.

Here, for over 14 or 15 years, we've actually brought in both bluefin and yellowfin in captivity.

the unwieldy beast with two fins.

Humpback whale has scalloped edges on its flippers.

Humans, without fins 90 meters, 3.5 minutes.

Now, finning is the act of taking a shark, cutting the valuable fins off and throwing the live animal back in the water.

So we can save the bluefin tuna.

We've actually taken a sliver of the ocean, put it behind glass, and we together have put bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna on display.

Bluefin are pursued wherever they go there is a gold rush on Earth, and this is a gold rush for bluefin.

He's sort of a Homer Simpson with fins.

He gets finned, and then he gets thrown overboard.

That's the size they have to be to protect the bluefin tuna.

Bluefin are warmblooded like us.

Bluefin have two populations one large, one small.

Here's a dolphin where the fin's been re attached.

Some of them were dolphin liver. Some of them were dolphin blubber.

Bluefin are in cave paintings in France.

Now bluefin, in general, goes to one place Japan.

Meanwhile, Ernest finds his fins on the internet.

So in closing, I said I want to close by a couple of pictures.

That's one of our bluefin at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

I doubt anyone has seen a giant bluefin feed.

The three plants are Areca palm, Mother in Law's Tongue and money plant.

It's got light organs on its belly that are flashing, fin lights.

The tuna team from TOPP has done the unthinkable three teams tagged 1,700 tunas, bluefin, yellowfin and albacore all at the same time carefully rehearsed tagging programs in which we go out, pick up juvenile tunas, put in the tags that actually have the sensors, stick out the tuna and then let them go.

This is probably the biggest threat to sharks worldwide it is the finning of sharks.

Now, bluefin were revered by Man for all of human history.

It's hard to study a bluefin on its turf, the entire Pacific realm.

They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails and their power was to hurt men five months.

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails and their power was to hurt men five months.

I've been fascinated for a lifetime by the beauty, form and function of giant bluefin tuna.

Ze fuselage, ze empanage, ze nessal.

But it's a lion of the sea. It's a top predator.

If you have appendicitis, they take your appendix out, and you're cured.

BJ And Mikey also has, in his fingers, the ability to move the tail from left to right, and up and down with the other hand.

Watch the whip of its tail as it does it. Look at that.

The Dollar s Long Tail

They used to use the flesh as well for fertilizer and also would fin the sharks.

And they do it with their tail.

And now the end is near.

And the same goes for the tails.

The dog was wagging his tail.