or Skipjack-Pike
n.This fish, Temnodon saltator, Cuv. and Val., is thesame as the British and American fish of that name. It iscalled Tailor (q.v.) in Sydney. The name Skipjackused also to be given by the whalers to the Australian fish Trevally (q.v.).
1872. Hutton and Hector, `Fishes of New Zealand,' p. 111:
«It is quoted by Richardson that this fish [trevally], which hesays is the Skipjack of the sealers, used to be a staplearticle of food with the natives.»