The fin whale is the second largest animal in the world, behind the blue whale, and is an endangered species.
The shark fin running along the front door is cocky, but handsome.
Borrowman pointed out a distinctive pale-grey saddle patch behind the dorsal fin and identified the orca as one he sees frequently: a 43-year-old male known as A38.
Certainly this would seem the case--America's highways haven't seen so many eccentric cars since the Great Fin Era of the late 1950s, and everything in our offices is turning translucent orange, blue or pink.
The tail fin comes from right down the road in Frederickson.
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Come in summer -- for a day walk, week walk or to finish the whole lot (about eight weeks) -- and you might see the benign fin of a basking shark cruise by the shore.
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The airflow regulating fin merges with the falling roofline in a pronounced rear spoiler integrated within the boot lid, seamlessly fusing design and aerodynamic elements to give the vehicle its distinctive, coupe proportions.
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"It was beginning to roll and the dorsal fin was falling over somewhat, " he said.
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This attitude means that stopping the shark fin trade is likely to be a long and tedious process.
Facebook billionaire investor, Peter Thiel, clips off a small piece of cartilage, musician, Imogene Heap, plants an electric tag just below the dorsal fin.
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This means that each time one is found, one of the researchers will free-dive down to take a picture of it between the fifth gill and the side fin on both left and right sides.
Having completed the wrapping rituals, they deliver it to the people of Fin outside, who rinse the carpet in running water, and sprinkle rosewater drops with neatly cut and beautifully decorated wooden sticks.
So the oil-services companies devised techniques (such as the Q-Fin system from WesternGeco and the Nautilus system from CGGVeritas) to measure and adjust the position of the streamers as they travel through the water.
"Sharks are still hunted in some waters as part of the finning industry where, horribly enough, they take the fins for shark fin soup and discard the rest of the body - that is the biggest threat to all sharks worldwide, " she said.
Shark fin, of course, is the namesake ingredient of shark fin soup, a popular delicacy in China since the Ming Dynasty and now eaten in Chinese restaurants around the world.
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After a wind-down, the government is entitled under Fin Reg to send the final bill for all losses to the rest of the big banks in the form of bank taxes or levies.
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Quite often people think it's a shark because of the big dorsal fin.
And the first thing visitors see when they get off the bus is a statue of the company's mascot: the high-fin loach.
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The glossy black fin and back of a minke whale rose a hundred yards astern, two yellow-striped dolphins broke water and plunged down again, and then the flow of the turned tide could be seen as a chop on the water, small standing waves that indicated the Minch was reversing its direction.
If you watch closely, you can see them from the shores of Istanbul: The sudden flash of a dark grey dorsal fin cutting through the water.
Every few seconds, the creature's head or dorsal fin would poke through the murky waters, creating ripples and drawing murmurs from onlookers, who stood in the cold with cameras.
Further developing a design form initiated on the LF-LC concept and the high-performance LFA, the sharply sculpted form of an airflow regulating fin flows from underneath the side of the car and upwards through the rear wheel arch.
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The star of the show is a whole rouget, served dorsal fin upward as if the fish were still swimming.
Most America's cup boats throughout history, including the 2010 versions, were traditional monohulled boats that had a keel: a giant, underwater fin that counterbalances the boat against the wind.
In one case the struggling business made a hugely speculative investment in high-fin loaches, but the sensitive fish were so traumatized by vibrations from nearby power tools that they all went belly-up in just a few days.
Many Republicans in Congress want to repeal the Dodd-Frank Fin Reg bill lock, stock and barrel.
The biggest driver for shark fishing has been the demand for shark fin soup, a product that is seen as a luxury item among Chinese communities.
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