Indian mackerel
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Indian mackerel ( Rastrelliger kanagurta ) |
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The Indian mackerel or big-mouth mackerel ( Rastrelliger kanagurta ) is a more primitive representative of the Scombridae , that is, the fish has a normal-sized swim bladder and a few rafts (5–7 each). It lives in tropical and subtropical sea areas in the Indo-West Pacific region. Lately it has advanced from the red to the Mediterranean ( Lesseps migration ).
Its diet consists of eggs and young fish, but mainly plankton in general , especially copepods , arrowworms , pteropods , algae and the like. Ä. Accordingly, he has a narrow gill trap . It is one of those fish that, with sufficient plankton density, switch from snapping openly to straining plankton with wide open mouth ( ram feeding ) (like anchovies ).
The schooling fish mainly lives near the surface and near the coast, reaches a maximum length of 35 cm, mostly only up to 25 cm. It is considered tasty, so it is caught with nets (commercially) and fishing rods. He spawns pelagic . The maximum age should be four years.
Web links
- Indian mackerel on Fishbase.org (English)
- Rastrelliger kanagurta inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Collette, B., Di Natale, A., Fox, W., Juan Jorda, M. & Nelson, R., 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1817). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
