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Atka mackerel

[ at-kuh ]

noun

  1. 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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