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
HMS Skipjack (1806) Lieutenant Samuel Malbon commissioned "Skipjack" on 14 March 1806. She was paid off on 17 January 1808. A year later, on 7 January 1809, she was a breakwater at Demerara. Citations References HMS Skipjack (1806) HMS "Skipjack" was the French naval schooner "Trimeuse", commissioned at Guadeloupe in 1805. The Royal Navy captured her in 1806 and took her into service. She was paid off in 1808 and was used as a breakwater in 1809. On 12 March , after a chase of 15 hours, captured the French Navy schooner "Trimeuse" (or "Tremeuse", or "Tremieuse"), armed with two 9-pounder carronades and