Chilean jack mackerel

Trachurus murphyi

Data Deficient Carangid Fish of New Zealand Waters

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.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Jacks, Flatfishes, Barracudas, and Allies
Family: Carangidae
Genus: Trachurus
Maximum length: 70 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: South Pacific and Southwestern Atlantic: Eastern Central and South Pacific: off Peru and Chile (Ref. 27363 ), incl. incidental in Juan Fernández Is. (Ref. 89357 ). Reported from off Ecuador (Ref. 9283 ). Southwest Pacific: off New Zealand (Ref. 5755 ). Southwestern Atlantic: off southern Argentina (Ref. 27363 )
Conservation status: DDData Deficient

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