A medium-sized tuna fish with a white belly and striped back, commonly caught for food and sport fishing.
From Portuguese albacora, ultimately from Arabic al-bakara. The term became standard in English through Mediterranean and Atlantic fishing traditions in the 16th-17th centuries.
Albacore was the first tuna to be canned commercially in the 1800s—'white meat tuna' in those cans you see at stores is albacore, making this fish one of the most eaten but least recognized animals on your dinner plate!
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