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n. - Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters.

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  • For a map of distribution of Pacific saury larvae, see Terazai, 1989, p. 59.
  • Samna are pacific saury – a small, silver fish related to the mackerel and the sardine.
  • On the relationship between the Oyashio front and saury fishing grounds in the north-western Pacific.
  • Possible role of the Kuroshio Current in determining distribution of saury in the Northwestern Pacific.
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