The tuna canneries and the government are by far the two largest employers.
Tuna fishing and tunaprocessing plants are the backbone of the private sector, with canned tuna the primary export.
Tuna fishing and tuna processing plants are the backbone of the private-sector economy, with canned tuna the primary export.
The tuna canneries are the second-largest employer, exceeded only by the government.
Closely related to these is the great tunny, or Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) found in all warm seas and reaching at times a weight of 1500 pounds.
These enormous fishes are much valued by anglers, a popular "Tuna Club" devoted to the sport of catching them with a hook having its headquarters at Avalon, on Santa Catalina Island, in California.
In California, the Spanish name oftuna has become current among fisherman.
In the years to come, will that lad exult over the capture of a mighty tuna or giant tarpon with as much genuine joy and enthusiasm as over that string of bass?
With the tarpon or tuna rod, and with the reel either on top or underneath, a socket for the rod butt becomes necessary in playing a very heavy fish.
It is for this reason, and this alone, that Catalina is the only place suitable for tuna fishing, though there are other islands which this fish frequents.
Unfortunately, the tourists and the tuna arrive about the same time, the latter usually appearing in June and the former coming in July and August.
I shall give a description of tuna tackle later; the tackle used for yellow-tail resembles it in general character, but is much lighter.
However, some amusement might be got in this way till the tuna arrive.
Mr. Ryder informed me that he had landed sixtuna in one day, and also in one day had lost no fewer than five lines, and had broken a rod and a reel.
For anyone can, of course, capture a tuna with a wire rope, and haul him in by main force; but to capture a tuna under the rules of the Tuna Club is a different matter.
As soon as possible the launches put out and commence trolling across the shoal and wherever the tuna show themselves.
I should strongly advise the fisherman to buy his tuna tackle in New York, certainly not in England; English tackle makers are as yet completely ignorant concerning tuna fishing.
Sometimes before tackle is in readiness and launches got under way, the tuna shoal sweeps right into the little bay of Avalon, chasing the flying fish in every direction.
The tuna do not stay permanently round Avalon even during the summer; sometimes they may stay for weeks, at others only a few days.
Small-scale industry is limited to handicrafts, tuna processing, and copra.
Growth has been led by the tourist sector, which employs about 30% of the labor force and provides more than 70% of hard currency earnings, and by tuna fishing.
That's the kind of noise he made that Ash Wednesday atTuna Flat.
Tuna Plain, to which Mons Nilsson and his friends refer a number of times in the first act, was the place where Gustav settled his first score with the obstreperous Dalecarlians.
Much it would have availed me to have piety at Larv Heath or Tuna Plain!
There is no such well-studied and semiceremonial apparatus for tuna gathering as, for example, the Papago device made from the ribs of the dead saguaro in accordance with traditional formula.
Add the tuna fish, which has been broken into large flakes.
TUNA FISH A LA KING Open a can of tuna fish and turn into a china dish.
TUNA FISH A LA KING Open cans of fish and turn into a large bowl.
It's called tuna cheese, made from the milky juice of the prickly pear that grows on yet another cactuslike plant of the dry lands.
This tuna cheese sometimes teams up in arid lands with the juicy thick cactus leaf sliced into a tortilla sandwich.
We mixed the mixed cheese with sardine and tuna mashed together in a little of the oil from the can.
When I had all save about one hundred feet of line wound in the tuna anchored himself and would not budge for fifteen minutes.
President Coxe was alive to them also, and he has rebuilt and rejuvenated theTuna Club on the splendid standard set by its founder, Dr.
Beginning late in June, for six weeks tuna were caught almost every day, some days a large number being taken.
I had one strike that plowed up the sea, showing the difference between the strike of a big tuna and that of a little one.
And when the sunlight shines golden through this wall of white spray, and the great bronze and silver and blue tuna gleam for an instant, the effect is singularly exciting and beautiful.
XII BIG TUNA It took me five seasons at Catalina to catch a big tuna, and the event was so thrilling that I had to write to my fisherman friends about it.
When the bait got just right a larger tuna charged furiously, throwing up a great splash.
I was not satisfied then that the regular light outfit of the Tuna Club, such as I used at Avalon, would do for sailfish.
But at the end of that half-hour the tuna came clear to the surface, about one hundred feet from us, and there he rode the swells.
Among these tuna I fought were three that stand out strikingly.
When the tuna is raised so high he will refuse to come any higher, and then there is a deadlock.
Then one of the Tuna Club anglers began to bring in tuna that weighed well over one hundred pounds.
These were tuna from the genus Scomber, blue-black on top, silver on the belly armor, their dorsal stripes giving off a golden gleam.
Scomber decked out in the colors blue and silver, and three magnificent tuna whose high speeds couldn't save them from our trawl.
Like certain flocks of birds, whose speed they equal, these tuna swim in triangle formation, which prompted the ancients to say they'd boned up on geometry and military strategy.
In another generation, this beautiful land will be teeming with an educated, prosperous and contented people, who will regard the battlefield of La Tuna as the birthplace of their redemption.
But the leaping tuna pleased Tom the most, since he thought it such fun to watch them jump into the air like silver arrows after the flying-fish.
Ang bansíkul tag-ingug buktun, The tuna were each as big around as your arm.
Ang tulíngan ug barílis mu rang ubána, The mackerel and tuna are in the same family.
And we remained patiently at Tuna through all February and March.
On our way we were met by messengers, who had come to say that the Tibetan chiefs would not come to see me at Tuna, and I was all the more pleased that I had left Tuna before the message arrived.
But the monks continued to clamour for me to name a date for withdrawal, and the situation was only relieved when a General suggested that a messenger should return with me to Tuna to receive there the answer from the Viceroy.
Illustration: THE START FROM TUNA FOR GURU.
At Kala Tso I was welcomed by my old friends the 23rd Pioneers, under Colonel Hogge, who had been our escort at Tuna during all that terrible winter.
The monks, using forms of speech which Captain O’Connor told me were only used in addressing inferiors, loudly clamoured for us to name a date when we would retire from Tuna before they would let me leave the room.
I usually plan to have Boston Brown Bread, Tuna or Salmon Loaf and a pudding all steaming in the large compartment at once.
I must write down the recipes for your tuna loaf, and green peppers stuffed with cauliflower, and Russian dressing--and oh, that wonderful kind of rainbow dessert!
A salad that is both attractive and appetizing can be made by using tuna fish as a foundation.
Salt and pepper Vinegar Lettuce Mayonnaise Open a can of tuna fish, measure 1 cupful, and place in a bowl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tuna" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
