Horse mackerel
Trachurus trachurus
Kosher
Has fins and scales
Fins
Yes
Scales
Yes
Description
The Atlantic bluefin tuna is a species of tuna in the family Scombridae. It is variously known as the northern bluefin tuna, giant bluefin tuna, and formerly as the tunny.
Atlantic horse mackerel is eaten fresh or preserved by freezing, salting and drying, smoking, or canning. It's fried, broiled, or baked, made into escabeche in Iberia, and some is exported to Japan as aji for sushi. It's a key ingredient in Sicilian cooking.
Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus) lives in the north and east Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmara, and the Black Sea, from Norway down to South Africa. It usually sits over sandy bottoms at 100 to 200 meters and migrates north in summer.
Also known as
- Atlantic horse mackerel
- European horse mackerel
- Common scad
- Scad
Kosher Horse mackerel in foreign languages
| Scientific | Trachurus trachurus |
| Hebrew | טונה כחולת-סנפיר אטלנטית |
| Arabic | تن أزرق الزعنفة |
| Spanish | Atún Aleta Azul |
| Portuguese | Atuarro |
| French | Thon Rouge de l'Atlantique |
| Italian | tonno pinna blu |
| German | Roter Thun |
| Greek | Ερυθρός τόνος |
| Russian | Обыкновенный тунец |
| Chinese | 北方蓝鳍金枪鱼 |
| Japanese | タイセイヨウクロマグロ |
| Korean | 대서양참다랑어 |
| Bengali | নর্দার্ন ব্লুফিন টুনা |
| Vietnamese | Cá ngừ vây xanh Đại Tây Dương |
| Thai | ปลาทูน่าครีบน้ำเงินเหนือ |
| Indonesian | Tuna sirip biru atlantik |
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Warnings & Kosher Issues
- Kosher. Horse mackerel (Trachurus) has fins and scales, plus a line of bony scutes along the side.
- The name horse mackerel is ambiguous and gets applied to other fish regionally, so confirm which species a source means.