Credit: Illustration by Diane Rome Peebles
Family Scombridae
Description: body slender; elongate jaws form a pointed beak; dark bluish above, with about 30 dark bars; whitish below first dorsal fin long and low, with 21 to 27 spines; no gill rakes
Size: to 2.1 meters (83 inches) and 83 kilograms (183 pounds)
Where found: offshore Gulfstream; bluewater
Remarks: an important game fish, renowned for its tremendous runs and shifts of direction; usually not in schools; caught by trolling bait and artificial lures on flatlines
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