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Scomberomorous cavalla
Description: color of back iridescent bluish green; sides silvery, streamlined body with tapered head; no black pigment on front of dorsal fin; lateral line starts high and drops sharply below the second dorsal fin; young fish often have yellow spots like those of the Spanish mackerel
Similar Fish: cero, S. regalis; Spanish mackerel, S. maculatus
Where found: NEARSHORE and OFFSHORE, occasionally taken from piers running into deep water
Size: common to 20 lbs.
*Florida Record: 90 lbs.
Remarks: schooling fish that migrates fom south Florida waters in winter to more northerly waters in spring; Gulf population thought to be separate from Atlantic population, with considerable mixing in winter from Cape Canaveral past Key West; spawns in midsummer OFFSHORE; feeds on small fish and squid
* The Florida records quoted are from the Department of Environmental
Protection's printed publication, Fishing Lines and are not necessarily
the most current ones. The records are provided as only as a benchmark. |
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King
Mackerel
