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noun
- An edible fish Thyrsites atun native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
- My friend Jeffrey Jowell, who grew up in Cape Town, has lived away from South Africa for more than forty years, yearning for the entire time. He thinks about fried snoek and grilled snoek and dried snoek and snoek made into pí¢té. He may miss smoked snoek most of all. Any mention of snoek"a long, bony fish that looks like a second cousin of a barracuda"triggers memories in Jeffrey of his childhood. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040906fa_fact1
- Abstract--Snoek (Thyrsites atun) is a valuable commercial species and an important predator of small pelagic fishes in the Benguela ecosystem. The South African population attains 50% sexual maturity at a fork length of ca.73.0 cm (3 years). Spawning occurs offshore during winter-spring, along the shelf break (150-400 m) of the western Agulhas Bank and the South African west coast. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FDG/is_4_100/ai_95205111
- Snoek A silvery and oily fish, traditional to the Cape. It is available fresh when in season and frozen at other times of the year. It has long needle like bones and doesn't need to scaled before cooking. Use:It can be smoked, grilled, baked, fried or poached and served with lemon, garlic, dried chillies and melted butter for extra flavour. Although it's quite an oily fish, when baked or grilled it should be basted well to prevent it from overdrying. Wrapped in foil with onion, green pepper and tomatoe slices and barbequed over hot coals is also a South African favourite. It makes delicious hors d'oeuvres, soufflés, quiches, and roulades. http://www.food24.com/GlossaryItemDetails/0,10487,1-205,00.html
- Loosely applied to the queen mackerel Scomberomorous lineolatus in Natal.
- Loosely applied to various barracuda in the Transkei.
Etymology: zee snoek: sea pike through Afrikaans.
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