have slender fish mackerel and laterally compressed body, on which the alternating light and dark wide stripes.The dorsal fin had gray with narrow black border, a continuous and long.The belly and bottom head yellow.
Fish mackerel has several names in the nation.Fishermen call it the red rasp, sea bass or red Lenk.In city markets sellers just called perch or perch-rasp.But you will hear from experts on the Kuril snakehead or rock greenling, because it is such a transfer is the Latin name for the species.
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This fish is well known to anyone who has ever went out on a fishing trip in Avacha Bay, it is often caught in the coastal zone.Zaytsegolov dwells extensively in the Pacific, namely, in the northern part, meeting throughout the Asian coast, from the Yellow and ending the Barents Sea.And then his dwelling stretches along the American coast down to California.But more often it can be found in the waters of the south-eastern Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands.
Fish mackerel rather large.Its weight is greater than 2.5 kg and a length of more than 55 cm. Mackerel characterized by seasonal migration.At the end of May or early June rather warmed coastal waters, and it fits into a zone of shallow water (20-30 m depth) to spawn.Reef area with rocky soil areas - this is the place where the fish mackerel during spawning.As a rule, it is held in the area of underwater vegetation, as it is a substrate for its caviar.
period spawning mackerel quite stretched, this is due to a la carte spawning.Initially, the spawning males congregate, they choose the most suitable areas.These protected areas swim female portions they begin buttonhole eggs.Once spawning is completed, the females leave the place of spawning.But males are the protection of laying until a hatching larvae.To protect only remain brightly colored and the largest individual males.Once over the embryonic development of eggs, and this is from the beginning to mid-October, rock greenling begins to move away from the coast.He is immersed in the winter to a depth of 300 meters. But his first juvenile lives in the water column, and only after reaching a certain size, it will move to the bottom of life.
mackerel fish is omnivorous.She even during spawning continues to eat.Basically its diet includes a variety of crustaceans, small fish and shellfish.Mackerel does not shrink and waste of the fishing industry, and the eggs of other fish in the course is like, however, and the careless fellow.And I must say that this caviar is a part of its diet.
mackerel fish - is an object of marine fishermen in Kamchatka.The biggest number of its ocean waters is observed in Southeast Kamchatka and Northern Kuriles.Sometimes it comes in the western waters and south-western coast of the Bering Sea.Most often individuals are caught more than 1,5 kg and a length of 49 cm. As soon as the warm spring, mackerel moved to the coastal waters.In late March, its shoals appear at a depth of 200 meters, and in April he was already out on the shelf.In the coastal waters of the fish caught easily, you can not even go out on a boat and just go deeper into the water.
