Small mackeral

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alancooper
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Small mackeral

#1 Post by alancooper »

Fishing from rocks near Bundoran, Donegal bay today, I caught the smallest mackeral. It was finger-sized. The guy next to me caught two!
is there a biologist who can tell me where the mackeral breed? The one I caught must have been an egg fertilised this Summer.
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Sonaghan
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#2 Post by Sonaghan »

Mackerel spawning peaks off the west coast during May and June. This link has a map of the main spawning areas from a survey carried out by the Marine Institute.

[url]http://www.marine.ie/NR/rdonlyres/209AF3F1-EB30-4AD7-85BA-6A51EDD1E37C/0/Fish_Egg_Surveys.pdf[/url]
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#3 Post by pete »

Lots of little macs about at the moment, had some better ones at St. John's last week and they even had the little guys in their gut.
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