Atka mackerel

[ at-kuh ]

noun
  1. a black-banded mackerel, Pleurogrammus monopterygius, of northern Pacific seas.

Origin of Atka mackerel

1
First recorded in 1890–95; named after Atka, an island in southwestern Alaska near the fishing grounds

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