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King Mackerel

Credit:
Illustration by Diane Rome Peebles
Family Scombridae

Description: color of back iridescent bluish green, sides silvery; streamlined body with tapered head; no black pigment on front of the first dorsal fin; lateral line starts high and drops sharply below the second dorsal fin; young fish often have yellowish spots like those of 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 pounds

Remarks: schooling fish that migrates from south Florida waters in winters 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 mid-summer offshore; feeds on small fish and squid




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