Mackerel

Scientific name: Scomber colias
English name: Atlantic Chub Mackerel
French name: Maquereau espagnol atlantique
Spanish name: Estornino del Atlántico
Local Name: Maquereau

Additional information
“Southern” Atlantic mackerel is widespread along the western coast of Africa. The length of a body of a fish makes 17-33 cm without obvious domination of any dimensional group. Spike has gentler consistence. The mackerel makes vertical migrations: it keeps in seabed layers of water in the afternoon, and rises to a water surface at night. It lives in a layer of water from a surface up to deep of 300 m. It eats zooplankton. Meat is cream-white. The content of fat in meat of the mackerel caught in area Morocco – Mauritania range from 3 % (February-March) up to 15 % (August)