Mackerel

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Mackerel

Layer Info
Category	Ecology
Sub-category	Fish

Description

Habitat: Pelagic
Main role: Predator
Trophic level: 3,9

Diet: Mackerel feeds on both pelagic and benthic organisms such as fish (sprats, sandeel), worms and other invertebrates.

Threats: Of commercial interest. Mackerel are caught by a directed fishery for human consumption, which tends to target bigger fish, potentially causing smaller, less marketable fish to be discarded.

MSP Challenge

Mackerel is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE).

Different pressures generate by human activities (noise, bottom disturbance, surface disturbance, artificial substrate) have different, complex effects on marine species in terms of movement, survival and procreation.

Mackerel is caught by all three fishing fleets, but mostly by industrial and pelagic trawl.

Types

• Very Low Density
• Low Density
• Medium Density
• High Density
• Very High Density

Metadata

Data Source

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Original Title

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Description

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Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd North Sea

Methodology

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Not applicable. This layer is not available in the MSP Challenge Baltic Sea Edition.

Types

• Extremely Low
• Low
• Medium
• High
• Extra High

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for Clyde Marine Region here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the source.

Description

Enter the description of the Clyde Marine Region dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Clyde Marine Region

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge.

Not applicable. This layer is not available in the MSP Challenge Adriatic Sea Edition.

Not applicable. This layer is not available in the MSP Challenge Eastern Mediterranean Sea Edition.