Human Interaction
The snake mackerel is caught as bycatch in the tuna longline fishery and is of minor commercial importance. It is marketed frozen or in sausages and fish cakes. In Hawaii, this fish is known as hāuliuli and is considered good eating cooked or dried. King Kamehameha was apparently not fond of it, as he once remarked that it is a "delicious fish for the back country people", meaning fine for those who could not obtain anything better.
A snake mackerel was inadvertently caught during the voyage of the Kon-Tiki in 1947 and again during the expedition of the Tangaroa which retraced the route of the Kon-Tiki between the coast of Peru and the Polynesian Islands. At the time of the Kon-Tiki voyage, the snake mackerel had never been known to have been caught.
Read more about this topic: Snake Mackerel
Famous quotes containing the words human and/or interaction:
“The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
“The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.”
—Frances Moore Lappé (b. 1944)