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.
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