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Old 02-14-2016, 10:24 PM
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Atlantic Mackerel. Cold water. They eat small shrimp, copepods and larvae of just about whatever is available. Many times when you cut fish like herring and mackerel open to study the diets they are full of tiny pink copepods and euphausiid shrimp.
I've never eaten one.

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http://www.gma.org/fogm/Scomber_scombrus.htm

http://www.fishwatch.gov/profiles/atlantic-mackerel
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