FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
MACKEREL, MACKEREAL
Grimes, William. 2004. Eating Your Worlds. Oxford University Press.
is a migratory surface-dwelling predatory fish, commercially important as a food fish.
- ORIGIN Middle English: from old French maquerel
Garrett, Theodore Francis (edited by). 1898. the Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery. L. Upcott Gill, 170, Strand, W.C. London. Vol. II
are fish of the (Scomber scombrus) is marked with blue-black over the back, falling in transverse stripes down the sides towards the silver peny. They vary in quality.