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Family Order: Perciformes 🍽️ 22 Edible 🎣 50 Game Fish

Mackerels, tunas, and bonitos

Scombridae

Fast-swimming, mostly marine fish including the commercially important tunas and mackerels.

Species
51
Genera
14
Max Length
458 cm
Max Weight
684.0 kg
Avg Trophic
4.22
Threatened
1

🌐 Geographic Distribution

Mexico
20 spp.
Kenya
14 spp.
Brazil
14 spp.
Mozambique
14 spp.
Venezuela
12 spp.
United States
12 spp.
Colombia
12 spp.
Cuba
12 spp.
Canada
12 spp.
Seychelles
12 spp.

🔬 Ecology & Feeding

Shallowest
0 m
Deepest
2,743 m

🌍 Habitat Distribution

🌊 Marine
53
🔄 Diadromous
1

🛡️ Conservation Status Distribution

LC
NT
DD
Least Concern 37
Near Threatened 5
Vulnerable 3
Endangered 1
Data Deficient 4

🏆 World Records

weight
Atlantic bluefin tuna - 678.58 kg
Thunnus thynnus
🎣 Ken Fraser 📍 Aulds Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada 📅 Oct 1979
weight
Yellowfin tuna - 193.68 kg
Thunnus albacares
🎣 Guy Yalon 📍 San Benedicto Island, Mexico 📅 Apr 2012
weight
Atlantic mackerel - 1.81 kg
Scomber scombrus
🎣 Robert Milkins 📍 Fowey, UK 📅 Jul 2009

🍽️ Nutrition & Mercury Safety

Edible Species
3
Avg Mercury
0.29
ppm · Moderate
Avg Omega-3
476
mg / serving

🐟 Species in Mackerels, tunas, and bonitos

51 total
Indian mackerel
Rastrelliger kanagurta
LC 🌊 Marine Game
Indo-Pacific king mackerel
Scomberomorus guttatus
DD 🌊 Marine Game
Island mackerel
Rastrelliger faughni
VU 🌊 Marine Edible Game
Japanese Spanish mackerel
Scomberomorus niphonius
NT 🌊 Marine Game
Kanadi kingfish
Scomberomorus plurilineatus
DD 🌊 Marine Edible Game
Kawakawa
Euthynnus affinis
LC 🌊 Marine Game
King mackerel
Scomberomorus cavalla
LC 🌊 Marine Edible Game
Korean seerfish
Scomberomorus koreanus
LC 🌊 Marine Game
Little Tunny
Euthynnus alletteratus
LC 🌊 Marine Edible Game
Longtail tuna
Thunnus tonggol
DD 🌊 Marine Game
Monterey Spanish mackerel
Scomberomorus concolor
NT 🌊 Marine Edible Game
Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel
Scomberomorus commerson
NT 🌊 Marine Game
Pacific bluefin tuna
Thunnus orientalis
NT 🌊 Marine Game
Pacific bonito
Sarda lineolata
🌊 Marine Edible Game
Pacific Chub mackerel
Scomber japonicus
LC 🌊 Marine Game
Pacific sierra
Scomberomorus sierra
LC 🌊 Marine Edible Game
Papuan seerfish
Scomberomorus multiradiatus
DD 🌊 Marine Game
Plain bonito
Orcynopsis unicolor
LC 🌊 Marine Game
Queensland school mackerel
Scomberomorus queenslandicus
LC 🌊 Marine Edible Game
Serra Spanish mackerel
Scomberomorus brasiliensis
LC 🌊 Marine Edible Game
Shark mackerel
Grammatorcynus bicarinatus
LC 🌊 Marine Edible Game
Short mackerel
Rastrelliger brachysoma
VU 🌊 Marine Game
Skipjack tuna
Katsuwonus pelamis
LC 🌊 Marine Game
Slender tuna
Allothunnus fallai
LC 🌊 Marine Game