Saury

Saury, SAURY PIKE, any fish of the Physostomous genus Scombresox, with five species widely distributed in the open sea. As in the Garpikes, both jaws are prolonged into a kind of beak, and set with small teeth; behind the anal and the dorsal fins are a number of detached finlets. The Common Saury (Scombresox saurus) is about 18 inches long, dark above and silvery-white below. It is abundant on both sides of the Atlantic, and in Britain is often called the Skipper, from its habit of rushing along the surface of the water to escape from the porpoises, etc.