Atka fish

Variant of Atka mackerel

Atka mackerel definition

☆ Atka mackerel (at′kə)

a commercially important ocean greenling (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) of the northern Pacific, esp. the area off the Aleutian Islands
also called Atka fish

Etymology: after Atka Island, in the Aleutians

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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