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Definition of Jack mackerel

1. Noun. A California food fish.

Definition of Jack mackerel

1. Noun. Any of various edible fish of the genera ''Trachurus'' or ''Caranx''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jack Mackerel

Literary usage of Jack mackerel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geological Record Of Ecological Dynamics: Understanding The Biotic by National Research Council, National Academies Press (U.S.) (2005)
"... jack mackerel 3000-year record of SST (estimated from alkenone undersaturation) and relative abundance of fish scales from anchovy, sardine (pilchard), ..."

2. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"... and jack mackerel (Trachurus symmetricus) in the southern California mackerel fishery and primarily canned for pet food, although some were canned for ..."

3. Using Market Mechanisms to Manage Fisheries: Smoothing the Path by Bertrand Le Gallic, Anthony Cox (2006)
"It currently covers seven major species (sardine, mackerel, jack mackerel, saury, walleye pollock, common squid, and snow crab), covering a production of ..."

4. Liberalising Fisheries Markets: Scope and Effects by OECD Staff, Committee for Fisheries (2003)
"On the other hand, jack mackerel stocks appear to be increasing and are ... Fishing pressure on the Chilean jack mackerel has been building up rapidly. ..."

5. Environmental Performance Reviews by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Environmental Policy (2001)
"... Alaska pollack, jack mackerel, mackerel, Japanese pilchard [sardine] and snow crab). Japanese squid was added to the TAC system in 1998. ..."

6. Oecd Environmental Performance Reviews by OECD Staff, OECD., Organisation for Economic Co-operation, Oecd (2005)
"Catches of anchovy, jack mackerel and sardine, the main species used for fishmeal, have decreased since the mid-1990s (eg from 2.9 million tonnes in 1997 to ..."

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