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Cleaning albacore loins in preparation for canning this premium whitemeat tuna.The discarded dark parts of the loin go into canned pet food. Tunas andtuna-like fishes -- with average catch of about 285 million pounds during 1963-1967 -- dominated the California fisheries at that time and accounted for nearly 60 percent of total fishery landings.