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 (1889) 26 June 1897 "Skipjack" was present at the Jubilee Fleet Review at Spithead, In 1898 "Skipjack" was sent to Palmers of Jarrow for refit. "Skipjack" had her locomotive boilers replaced by Reed water-tube boilers in early 1900, which increased power and reliability. "Skipjack"s new machinery delivered over giving a speed of . "Skipjack" took part in the Royal Navy's annual manoeuvres in July–August 1900, and again in 1901. In January 1901 she was a tender to the cruiser in Kingstown. In 1905 "Skipjack" was in reserve, but after refit, she returned to active service as part of the Fishery Protection