Atlantic horse mackerel or Trachurus trachurus (or locally known as: Common scad , Horse mackerel , Maasbanker , Pollock , Scad, Miss Thom , Schoosh )

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This edition of the mackerel can be found in the North-eastern Atlantic from Iceland to Senegal, included Cape Verde islands. Also in the mediterranean and rarly in the black sea. This mackerel is ediable and can be smoked fryed salted and baked ect. The commercial rise of this fish has been growing steadly since the 1970's and is set to be extinct within the next 20 years if figures carry on. So called the horse mackerel as it was first thought that other smaller speciec of fish could ride on the back of it over great distances such as a horse. This is now widely discredited and has all but been cast into legend but the name remains. Not much is known of this fish as it generally resides below 100m and most of the information reguarding it has come from dead specimins caught by trawlers. However this fish has recentlly been the subject of much recent intrest as it is belived to not be with us much longer.