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Teleostei (teleosts) > Scombriformes (Mackerels) > Scombridae (Mackerels, tunas, bonitos) > Scombrinae
Etymology: Scomber: Greek, skombros = tunny or mackerel, 1623 (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Gmelin.

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Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic. Temperate; 46°N - 65°S, 98°W - 42°E

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Atlantic Ocean. Warm water; eastern and western coasts, including the Mediterranean and southern Black Sea. Replaced by Scomber japonicus in the Indo-Pacific.

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Maturity: L_m 21.3 range ? - ? cm
Max length : 55.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 121850)

Adults and juveniles feed mainly on zooplankton, with relative importance of larger organisms such as cephalopods, crustaceans and small pelagic fish increases with the size of individuals. Caught mostly in purse seine and pelagic trawl fisheries which target sardine and/or anchovy. Usually a by-catch but when availability of target species is low, this species provided an alternative income (Ref. 121850)

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Collette, Bruce B. | Collaborators

Collette, B.B., 1999. Mackerels, molecules, and morphology. p. 149-164. In B. Séret and J.-Y. Sire (eds.) Proc. 5th Indo-Pac. Fish Conf., Noumea, Paris. (Ref. 33246)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 126983)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 15 September 2010

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: minor commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 13.9 - 27.3, mean 22.5 °C (based on 492 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5625 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00724 (0.00451 - 0.01164), b=3.04 (2.91 - 3.17), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.9 ±0.63 se; based on food items.

Generation time: 4.5 (3.4 - 5.5) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 15 growth studies.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Prior r = 0.60, 95% CL = 0.39 - 0.90, Based on 6 stock assessments.

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low to moderate vulnerability (33 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.

Nutrients (Ref. 124155): Calcium = 21.2 [8.1, 51.9] mg/100g ; Iron = 0.69 [0.26, 1.60] mg/100g ; Protein = 20.7 [19.5, 21.9] % ; Omega3 = 0.739 [0.500, 1.145] g/100g ; Selenium = 42.7 [22.3, 80.3] μg/100g ; VitaminA = 20.1 [6.0, 80.7] μg/100g ; Zinc = 0.688 [0.442, 1.014] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.

Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789