horse mackerel (Carangidae spp., esp. the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus); jack mackerel; pompano; scad

Japanese jack mackerel; Japanese horse mackerel (Trachurus japonicus)

Word usually written using kana alone

brownstriped mackerel scad (Decapterus muroadsi)

mackerel scad (any fish of genus Decapterus)

Food, cooking

deep-fried horse mackerel

bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus); bigeye jack; great trevally; six-banded trevally; dusky jack

horse mackerel, cut open and dried

striped jack (Pseudocaranx dentex); white trevally

Rare term

horse mackerel caught in autumn

giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis)