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
USS Skipjack (SS-184) a "down the throat" spread of three torpedoes that sank the "Kanan Maru" (). Two days later, the submarine intercepted a three-ship convoy escorted by a destroyer and she fired two torpedoes that severely damaged the merchant ship, "Taiyu Maru" (). Then she let go with four more that quickly sank the cargo ship, "Bujun Maru" (). On 17 May, "Skipjack" sank the passenger-cargo ship "Tazan Maru" () off Indochina before heading back to Fremantle. Following participation in performance tests for the Mark 14 torpedo, "Skipjack" sailed for her fourth war patrol on 18 July 1942, conducted along the northwest