Carangidae

Chilean jack mackerel

Trachurus murphyi

Powerful schools migrating through cold Humboldt currents

• Tropical
• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• South America
• Fusiform
• Large
• Tropical fish

The Chilean jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi), sometimes called the jurel, Inca scad or Peruvian jack mackerel, is a species of jack mackerel in the genus Trachurus of the family Carangidae. Since the 1970s, it has become one of the world's more important commercial fish species. High volumes have been harvested, but the fishery may now be in danger of collapsing.