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Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel

Scomberomorus commerson

Taxonomy
Order: Scombriformes (Mackerels)
Family: Scombridae (Mackerels, tunas, bonitos)

Fishing area

Occurrence, habitat
Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and South Africa to Southeast Asia, north to China and Japan and south to southeast Australia, and to Fiji.

Introduced to
Immigrant to the eastern Mediterranean Sea by way of the Suez Canal.

Temperature
Tropical

Depth
10 - 70 m

Habitat/ biotope

On the outer continental shelf
Pelagic (in the open sea)

Salinity/ water type
Saltwater

Spawning migration
None

Degree of wild catch
Highly commercial

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Threat level

IUCN red list
Near Threatened (NT)

Assessment
Endangered by overfishing

Annual wild catch (t)
254'973 t

Number of animals affected (per year)
43.2 - 44.3 million