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Atka mackerel
[ at-kuh ]
noun
- a black-banded mackerel, Pleurogrammus monopterygius, of northern Pacific seas.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Atka mackerel1
First recorded in 1890–95; named after Atka, an island in southwestern Alaska near the fishing grounds
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