Sentence:  Philander went into the next room...and came back with a salt <WSD>mackerel</WSD> that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An edible fish of the family Scombridae, often speckled.