Like the little boys of the Navy who, under the pompom, pack and capsize on July 14, the mackerel is a sacred mataf. On all seas and still popular. We know him well with uniforms according to whether he is Spanish mackerel, bastard, white, king, spotted, from India but it is the Scomber scombrus, or common mackerel, which has given the genus its posterity since ancient times.
The streamlined body, the long head, the pointed muzzle, the indented tail, it reveals this blue-green back streaked with dark blue lines which offered Van Gogh the motif of one of his most famous still lifes. Preferring rather cold waters, at least temperate, this tireless navigator crosses in the Mediterranean, in the North Sea, in the Baltic and on almost all the Atlantic. In spring, and especially summer, in its peak season, he is at home in Brittany. From the Atlantic coasts of Morbihan, in the Celtic Sea and to the waves of the Manche, on the side of Côtes-d'Armor and Saint-Brieuc
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