• Rastrelliger is the common ‘mackerel’ or ‘Scomber’.

• Important food fish (Fish meal, fish cake, and fish sausage).

• Soft and laterally compressed body.

• Bluish green to grey above and yellowish on sides of belly.

• Deeply forked homocercal caudal fin.

• Surface feeders.

• Dorsal fin and anal fin have series of ‘finlets’.

• Rastrelliger have enormous fecundity.