MACKEREL

Gregarious fish. A body harmonous, slightly compressed from sides, bluish-green, speckled by cross-section dark strips on a back, bluish and iridescent with the remains of strips and spots on sides, light-cream or golden in a belly part.
Lives in the Black Sea, meets in Baltiysk and Barents the seas. Keeps in the thickness of water and at a surface. Eats fish crustaceans, mollusks. About 40 sm and the magician сы reach lengths 270 g.
Spawns in the Sea of Marmara in March — April. After a vymetyvaniye of caviar comes back for нагула in the Black Sea.
Catch a mackerel more often the petty tyrant. It comes across from spring to late autumn. A scaffold in diameter 0,2 — 0,3 mm, a hook No. 7 — 10.
Fishers distinguish three age groups of mackerels. Young call chirusy, zamaterevshy, but lean, spring — the troublemaker, and fat, autumn, as a rule, larger — a rocking chair. A place where is in clover a mackerel jamb, it is possible to notice from far away: there incessantly with characteristic noise fish jumps out of water. The mackerel is very tasty, after all in its meat contains to 16 % of fat.