(n.) A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
(n.) The tautog of New England (Tautoga).
(n.) The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.
(n.) A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.
(n.) The female salmon in the spawning season.
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(1) D. ursi and D. klebanovskii predominantly occur in Pacific salmon, and D. dalliae in Alaskan blackfish.
(2) The Act of Killing and the Square were amongst a shortlist of documentary contenders that followed predictions (though there was no room for Blackfish), while The Great Beauty and The Hunt turned up in the best foreign language nominees.
(3) Blackfish by Gabriela Cowperthwaite deals not with animals in the wild, but in captivity, namely killer whales at the SeaWorld chain of resorts in the southern US.
(4) I was a killer whale trainer for 14 years and this is what I saw, the good and the bad.” Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish, by John Hargrove with Howard Chua-Eoan, is published by Palgrave Macmillan Trade.
(5) Company names go through the letters of the alphabet – Asherton Ltd, Binbrook Ltd, Coalburn Ltd, Docking Ltd. One of their companies – Blackfish Capital – bought a division of the collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing in June 2009, with the banking operations being restructured into the Luxembourg-based Banque Havilland, named after Rowland’s Jersey mansion.
(6) It had previously issued a steady stream of lower-key newspaper ads, trying to push back aggressively against the message presented by Blackfish and the pall that was cast over the company when, in late 2009 and early 2010, trainer Alexis Martineau was killed by a SeaWorld-owned orca on loan to a Spanish theme park, and another trainer, Dawn Brancheau, was killed by a giant male orca during a show at SeaWorld in Orlando.
(7) • Blackfish is available to watch on ABC’s iView until 23 November
(8) He now controls Banque Havilland – which used to be the crashed Icelandic Kaupthing bank business – in Luxembourg and the hedge fund Blackfish Capital Management.
(9) A killer whale performs at SeaWorld in a scene from Blackfish.
(10) Critically acclaimed documentary Blackfish first screened at the Sundance film festival in January and is due to open in US cinemas this weekend.
(11) Disparate campaigns for animal rights and protections have steadily gained momentum in recent years, spurred by works such as the 2013 documentary Blackfish , which examined treatment of killer whales at SeaWorld parks and prompted outrage and a sharp drop in profits .
(12) The public turned on SeaWorld after Blackfish’s release, especially after an estimated 20 million people saw the film when it was aired on news network CNN.
(13) Like the other nature docs, Blackfish is a gripping movie, with drama and characters and emotion, but unlike them, it's one that reminds us how much of a gap there is between humans and animals, and between movies and reality, which often amounts to the same thing.
(14) The Disney-owned animation studio Pixar has taken the rare step of changing the plot of its forthcoming sequel to the 2003 blockbuster Finding Nemo , according to a New York Times report, following claims about a US marine park in the critically acclaimed Sundance documentary Blackfish .
(15) Mosquitofish, Sacramento blackfish, or combinations of both species were stocked in experimental paddies.
(16) Last year, in response to the extremely negative response people had after watching Blackfish, SeaWorld chief executive Joel Manby announced that the controversial killer whale shows would come to an end at the end of 2016, to be replaced with “an all new orca experience focused on the natural environment.” Blackfish and our lingering obsession with animals as entertainment Read more In a column for the Guardian in 2015, Cowperthwaite wrote: “People have stopped going to SeaWorld not simply because of a movie but because, it seems, we’re recalibrating how we feel ethically about animal welfare.” “Faced with uncomfortable truths about animal welfare,” she continued, “we’re clarifying what it means to be humane.” This article was amended to clarify how many people were killed by Tilikum
(17) According to Louie Psihoyos, who directed dolphin documentary The Cove, Blackfish also impacted upon Finding Dory, the forthcoming sequel to Finding Nemo.
(18) It is here that the storyline has been changed following claims made in Blackfish, directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite , that SeaWorld, which has parks in Orlando, Florida, San Diego, California and San Antonio, Texas, was responsible for the deaths of three people, owing to its policy of keeping killer whales in captivity.
(19) The activists cited the documentary “Blackfish,” which explores what may have caused the killer whale Tilikum to kill SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010.
(20) Blackfish , which one American critic called the scariest film of last year, is already the subject of angry debate.