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Atlantic mackerel “migratory habits

The Atlantic mackerel (Scom- jon the under survace of the body | aon scombrus) is often called ‘near the tail. They are slender, | jthe fall they go southward and

Northern or Boston mackerel ‘to |‘streamlined fish, tapering both loffshore to the zone of warm distinguish-it ‘from its close rela- |to snout and to tail. The skin is |water which flanks the outer

ters ‘in the’ most northerly re- gions and by December they

waters. smaller, come—closer_toshore.than adults.

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tive to the south, the Spanish |velvety with small scales. Mac- ledge of the Continental Shelf.

mackerel. Both are members of |kerel are swift, active plankton | During winter they occupy a the family Scrombridae which |feeders that migrate extensive- | relatively narrow strip of water also includes the tunas, bonitos, |ly over. the open sea. | parallel to shore, but some 20 te chub mackerel, and king mack-| Mackerel appear in coastal {100 miles offshore. This strip -ex- erel. waters in Apri] near the south- |tends from Cape Hatteras nor- All members of the family are erly end.of their range, -but not | ithward to the southern edge of alike in having two fins on their |until July in the region from |Georges Bank and possibly as « backs —a spiny one and a soft|southern New England to the |far north as Sable Island. While ane followed by several small}Gaspe. In September ‘they begin | |there,they are” believed to” o0--

lare seldom seen or caught.

'Luminescence | probably

| size and swimming ability. | There are at least two subdi-|line from boats

|visions in the western Atlantic | ground- -up bait into the water to | }lure the~ schools

‘about 1870, this was ‘from its offshore winter habitat was gradually given up when | \toward the Virginia, Maryland, *the use of the, purse seine and New Jersey coasts in April, leame general.

and thence northeastward to o¢- the entire catch is made with {} cupy ‘the western part. the purse seines.

When mackerel disappear in |

The Guardian - The Evening Patriot —

vision, and hence schools may, ldisband and reform according | to diurnal variations in_ light. |both groups”

her at night. Schooling tends to | be according to Sizes, pernal

owing to a-connection between | Formerly,

mackerel population— a south | ern and a northern group. The southern group migrates

Gulf of Maine in su

The northern group migrates” and gill nets toward the southern New Eng- | northeastward to occupy the jers from the Gulf of St. Lawrence in summer.

have varies from all coastal | During these spring migrations |es are landed g summer the | both groups are joined by vague |Nova Scotia and in the Gulf of |

ee fish” usually | schools which apparently move St.. the |in from directly offshore. For ‘a |Islands, Prince’ Edward Asland- iz : s |and ‘Cape Breton Isiand--— 5

finlets. Finlets are also present’ to a from ‘coastal wa- ae mid depths because they Successful and cain Season In 1666

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fare together in the area off sou- ‘The: pronounced schooling ha- thern New England. otherwise, |bit of the mackerel depends on | their courses are fairly

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is im- |trace their spring courses in re- portant in keeping schools toge- | turning to their winter habitat.

SHERY erly, most-of the mack | lerel were caught with hook and

jand floating traps-come second,

“Atlantic mackerel are fished. } land coast in May and thence |commercially im Canadian wat-

Labrador. However, best catch | 4

Lawrence around Magdalen. |4

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inde-. j fall migration, | approximately

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5th, 1966 from the fishing grounds off St, Paul’s Island. They had been fishing on Brown’s Bank out of the port of Shelburne, N.S., since mid January 4nd now have re-

Gulf Garden, Foods Ltd. trawler fleet of folir ships, the Gulf Guard, Galf Gallant, Gulf Gull and Howe Bay, seen here sailed into George- town Harbor Tuesday, April

turned to fish gu waters out The three trawlers, the of their home port of George- ) Gulf Guard, Gulf Gull and town. Unloading operations of Gulf Gallant returned to the the 250,000 ds of fish fishing: grounds April 7th. brought here the trawlers 1966. ;

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