Atlantic mackerel

There’s a poem (one of my favorites) by Mark Doty that was inspired by a trip to the grocery store where he noticed some mackerel on ice at the fish counter. He was so compelled to describe them that he had to write the poem in the car on the ride home, scribbling his notes on brown paper bags.I suppose it could’ve just as easily had been a can of nails or a tulip, but it wasn’t.

Did another large-scale fishery really just develop right under our noses? Picking up from where I left off in my last post… I wanted to give readers a rundown on what happened during the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting earlier this month, or at least the “Unmanaged Forage” portion of it. If you read my […]

Mackerel fishing, Nolton Haven

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Bedazzled with black stripes on a vibrant blue-green back, the Atlantic mackerel is a lively little fish and a great bait

Scomber scombrus. Atlantic mackerel.

Mackerel fishes

Art illustration - Oceans & Seas - Atlantic Mackerel: (Scomber scombrus) is a family belonging to the Scombridae, peciformes order of teleost fish. Abounds in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It feeds on other smaller fish, crustaceans and molluscs. It has a very thin body with two separate dorsal fins, with short pectoral fins and an anal fin followed by 7 winglets. Its color is dark blue with a white belly. Is between 25 and 45 cm in length and can reach 4.5 kg.

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Color of back iridescent bluish green or iron-gray, sides and belly silvery with pale to dusky fins; streamlined body with tapered head; distinguished from Spanish mackerel by the king mackerel’s lateral line, which dips sharply. The anterior dorsal fin on a king mackerel is gray in coloration; young fish often have yellowish spots like those […]

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Northeast Atlantic (NEA) mackerel is found in a huge area extending from the Iberian Peninsula in the south to the northern Norwegian Sea up to Svalbard in the north....