Common name of Grammatorcynus bicarinatus
 
Common name Shark mackerel
Language English
Type FAO
Official trade name No
Rank 1 - (Legal common name (unique))
Country Global
Locality
Ref. FAO-FIES, 2022
Life stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core primary lexeme
1st modifier other fish
2nd modifier
Remarks Name comes from the ammonia-like smell noticed upon cleaning them.; 'shark', of obscure origins but appears to have been introduced to English in the late 1560s by members of Sir John Hawkins' expedition (a ballad of 1569 recorded 'There is no proper name for [the fish] that I know, but that certain men of Captain Hawkins' doth call it a shark'), but it is not known where they got it from. A resemblance to Austrian dialect 'schirk', i.e., sturgeon has been noted (p. 471 in Ref. 11979); 'mackerel', from Middle English 'makerel' from Middle French (p. 714 in Ref. 11978) 'maquereau', i.e., side dishes (p. 443 in Ref. 9404). Also Ref. 171, 56807, 83882, 90062, 93840, 95632, 115257, 118272, 122997, 124692.
 
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