The Japanese amberjack or yellowtail, ''Seriola quinqueradiata'', is a species of

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fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...

in the family

Carangidae The Carangidae are a family of ray-finned fish which includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, and scads. It is the largest of the six families included within the order Carangiformes. Some authorities classify it as the only family ...

. It is native to the northwest

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, ranging from China (called ),

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(called ), and Japan to

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. It is greatly appreciated in Japan, where it is called ''hamachi'' or ''buri'' (). These fish are eaten either cooked or raw and are a seasonal favourite in the colder months when the meat has a higher fat content. Amberjack is typically thought of as a winter delicacy of Toyama and the Hokuriku region. Although it is frequently listed on menus as "yellowtail tuna," it is a fish of an entirely different family, the Carangidae, rather than the family

Scombridae The mackerel, tuna, and bonito family, Scombridae, includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes. The family consists of 51 species in 15 genera and two subfamilies. All species are in the subfamily Scombrinae, except the butterf ...

that includes

tuna A tuna is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae ( mackerel) family. The Thunnini comprise 15 species across five genera, the sizes of which vary greatly, ranging from the bullet tuna (max len ...

s, mackerels, and bonitos. Some of the fish consumed are caught wild, but a substantial amount is farmed (about 120,000

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per year). To populate the pens, every May, workers fish for the small wild fry (called ''

mojako Fish go through various biological life cycle, life stages between fertilization and adulthood. The life of a fish start as spawn (biology), spawned fish egg, eggs which hatch into immotile larvae. These larval hatchlings are not yet capable ...

''), which can be found under floating seaweed. They scoop out the seaweed together with the ''mojako'' and put the ''mojako'' in cages in the sea. The small fry grow until they reach 10 to 50 grams in mass; the fry are called ''inada'' in eastern Japan ( Kantō). They are then sold to aquaculturists, who grow them until they reach 3 kilograms (youth, called ''hamachi'') or 5 kilograms (adult, called ''buri''). These days, most aquaculturists use extruded pellets to feed the fish. File:Mojako.jpg, Juvenile Japanese amberjack File:Buri no suimono 01.jpg, ''Suimono'' (clear soup) with Japanese amberjack Bangeo-hoe.jpg, ''Bangeo- hoe'' (), raw amberjack

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