Skipjack tuna Skipjack tuna The skipjack tuna ("Katsuwonus pelamis") is a medium-sized perciform fish in the tuna family, Scombridae. It is otherwise known as the aku, arctic bonito, mushmouth, oceanic bonito, striped tuna, or victor fish. It grows up to 1 m (3 ft) in length. It is a cosmopolitan pelagic fish found in tropical and warm-temperate waters. It is a very important species for fisheries. It is a streamlined, fast-swimming pelagic fish, common in tropical waters throughout the world, where it inhabits surface waters in large shoals (up to 50,000 fish), feeding on fish, crustaceans, cephalopods, and molluscs. It is an
Ruby G. Ford (skipjack) Ruby G. Ford (skipjack) The "Ruby G. Ford" was a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1891 at Fairmount, Maryland. She was a two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She had a beam of , a depth of , and a net tonnage of 5 register tons. She was one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. According to a first-hand account by Christopher White in his book "Skipjack", pp. 292–296, St. Martin's Press, published in 2009, the "Ruby G. Ford" was burned to