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DURING my investigations on tunny (Thunnus thynnus L.) in the North Sea this summer on Col. E. T. Peel's yacht St. George, I had occasion to talk to many fishermen and others interested in the occurrence of this fish; I have also consulted most of the relevant literature. Despite the almost unanimous agreement among the fishermen I met, that the tunny were not to be found in the North Sea before the War, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the migration of these fish into North Sea waters is not an occurrence of recent origin.
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RUSSELL, F. Tunny in the North Sea. Nature 132, 786 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132786a0
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