Skipjack tuna Japanese fish stock). It is also a key ingredient in shuto. In Indonesian cuisine, skipjack tuna is known as "cakalang". The most popular Indonesian dish made from skipjack tuna is "cakalang fufu" from Minahasa. It is a cured and smoked skipjack tuna dish, made by cooking the fish after clipping it to a bamboo frame. Skipjack is also integral to Maldivian cuisine. 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
Skipjack shad one study, skipjack shad have been found to feed on other shad/herring species such as the threadfin shad, the gizzard shad and young of the year herring species. In some extreme cases, it was shown that they could rely on cannibalism to survive. They are also known to feed on small fishes, mostly shad, while the juveniles feed on insects. The maximum size of the shad/herring utilized by skipjack shad was found to be about 30-35% of the skipjack's body length. There is not much data on the predators of the skipjack shad. Larger fish species, seabirds, and humans prey