Hawaiian Dolphinfish Mahi-Mahi Abide by Magnum PI's From the Head Down

Summary: The Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi are appetizing on Magnum PI's From the Head Down Oct. 4, 2018, because nobody allows them to rot from the head down.

Hawaiian dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus), known in Hawaii as mahi-mahi ("very strong"), are natural, strong acrobats, with the ability to jump out of water to catch flying fish (Exocoetidae family); photo by Henry Hauch, owner ACME Ventures Fishing; Cape Canaveral, east central Florida; May 2011: ACME Ventures Fishing, via Facebook May 25, 2011

The Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi abide by freshness guidelines for posh fare on Magnum PI action drama series episode From the Head Down Oct. 1, 2018.

Director Karen Gaviola and writers Eric Guggenheim and Peter Lenkov begin the first season's second episode with a burgled 300-pound (136.08-kilogram) Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis). Commercial fisherman Dan Sawyer (Carl Weathers) contacts Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez), private investigator and Robin's Nest security consultant for absentee landowner and best-selling author Robin Masters. The Vietnam veteran describes the $350,000-valued tuna diverted that morning from his delivery van parked every other Friday morning outside Lina's, "upscale joint off Ala Moana."

Magnum encourages Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks), MI6 military intelligence ex-agent and Robin's Nest majordomo (from Latin maior domūs, "house principle") to enjoy exquisite entrées with him.

Magnum figures upon Higgins' computer finesse to fathom which person on Lina's reservation system found the intel-filled flash drive furtively fit into the filched bluefin tuna.

Robin's Nest Ferrari and finances get Higgins and Magnum Lina's green papaya salad, lemon beurre blanc and mahi-mahi with 2014 Aubert and steak with Château Margaux. Higgins hails the Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi as "simply divine" whereas Sawyer has back perhaps half of a bluefin tuna hacked and harrowed from the head down. The Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi, identified by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1758), impress predators of egg, larval and physically and sexually immature and mature stages.

Captive 18-month, four- to five-year wild Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi life cycles juggle 1.5-day stages as buoyant, spherical eggs with 0.05- to 0.06-inch (1.2- to 1.6-millimeter) diameters.

Year-round spawning seasons with April-May peaks kindle two to three 80,000- to 1,000,000-egg clutches by each four- to five-plus-month-old, mated, sexually mature Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi female.

Clear-colored Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi ("strong-strong") pelagic (from Greek πελαγικός, "marine") eggs each lodge one white-yellow oil globule with a 0.012- to 0.016-inch (0.3- to 0.4-millimeter) diameter. Hatched larvae manifest 0.16-inch (4-millimeter) diameters and then black-pigmented head, tail and trunk melanophores (from Greek μέλας, "black" and -φόρος, "-bearing") and yolk-sac and planktonic-copepod diets. The four-plus-month-old, 13.5-inch (34.3-centimeter) female and 16.54-inch (42-centimeter) male Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi, named Coryphaena hippurus (from Greek κορυφή, "head" and Latin hippūrus, "goldfish"), nets sexual maturity.

The physically mature Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi observes 3.28- to 5-foot (1- to 1.5-meter) lengths and 8- to 25-pound (3.63- to 11.34-kilogram) or even 50-pound (22.68-kilogram) weights.

Round-headed females and square-headed males possess blue-green backs; blue-green silver-gold sides; blue pectoral, black dorsal, white-edged black anal and forked silver-gold caudal finds; and white-yellow undersides.

Fifty-knot (57.54-mile, 92.6-kilometer) hourly speeds quickly queue the streamlined Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi, with 58- to 66-rayed dorsal and 25- to 31-rayed anal fins, around surface-water prey. The dolphin-sized, dolphin-sounding Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi remain predators of billfish, crabs, jackfish, mackerel, pompano, squid and zooplankton; and prey of mammals, marlin, sailfish, swordfish and tuna. They survive in 121.39- to 278.71-foot (37- to 85-meter) coastal and open-sea depths in temperatures between 69.8 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (21 and 30 degrees Celsius).

The Hawaiian dolphinfish mahi-mahi treat Higgins to delicate, flaky, pink-fleshed, sweet-flavored seafood high in B12, niacin, phosphorus and selenium and low in saturated fats and sodium.

Private investigator Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) takes on a fishy case in CBS TV's Magnum P.I. season 1 episode 2, From the Head Down: Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Sep. 29, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Hawaiian dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus), known in Hawaii as mahi-mahi ("very strong"), are natural, strong acrobats, with the ability to jump out of water to catch flying fish (Exocoetidae family); photo by Henry Hauch, owner ACME Ventures Fishing; Cape Canaveral, east central Florida; May 2011: ACME Ventures Fishing, via Facebook May 25, 2011, @ https://www.facebook.com/131233053591294/photos/a.142650409116225/190302314351034/

Private investigator Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) takes on a fishy case in CBS TV's Magnum P.I. season 1 episode 2, From the Head Down: Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Sep. 29, 2018, @ https://www.facebook.com/MagnumPICBS/photos/a.188324141812283/266339777344052/

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Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS. 29 September 2018. "Magnum = more damaged cars! Here's your first look at Monday's episode!" Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/MagnumPICBS/photos/a.188324141812283/266339777344052/

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