Editing Mackerel (section)

==Distribution==
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| caption2          = [[King mackerel]]s (Scomberomorus cavalla) cruise on long migrations at 10 kilometres per hour (6.2 mph).<ref name="pfa">
{{cite web | title = Pelagic species | url = http://www.pfa-frozenfish.com/pfa2/fish1.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120211174604/http://www.pfa-frozenfish.com/pfa2/fish1.html | archive-date = 2012-02-11 | url-status = dead | publisher = Pelagic Freezer-trawler Association | access-date = 2009-07-22 }}</ref><ref name="Mackerel">
{{cite web | title = Mackerel | url = http://www.imr.no/temasider/fisk/makrell/makrell/en | url-status = dead | publisher = [[Institute of Marine Research]] | access-date = 2009-07-23 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170811181544/http://www.imr.no/temasider/fisk/makrell/makrell/en | archive-date = 2017-08-11 }}</ref>
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Most mackerel species have restricted distribution ranges,<ref name=FAOTuna /> while others, like the Wahoo, are found in all oceans between 59°N and 48°S.<ref name=":1" />

In combination, these fish (Scombroids) can be found worldwide in all oceans of the world, excluding the [[Southern Ocean|Southern]] and [[Arctic Ocean|Arctic Oceans]]. However, the [[Atlantic chub mackerel]] has been spotted near [[Greenland]] in the [[Arctic Ocean]] on rare occasions as [[Climate change|global warming]] makes the Arctic more habitable for them.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Katz |first=Cheryl |date=May 10, 2018 |title=Alien Waters: Neighboring Seas Are Flowing into a Warming Arctic Ocean |url=https://e360.yale.edu:8443/features/alien-waters-neighboring-seas-are-flowing-into-a-warming-arctic-ocean |website=Yale Environment 360}}</ref>

Some mackerel species, especially [[Pelagic fish|pelagic]] and [[Filter feeder|filter feeding]] one such as chub mackerel, migrate vertically, staying at certain depths depending on the time of day and food availability.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Yasuda |first1=Tohya |last2=Kinoshita |first2=Junji |last3=Niino |first3=Yohei |last4=Okuyama |first4=Junichi |date=2023-04-01 |title=Vertical migration patterns linked to body and environmental temperatures in chub mackerel |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079661123000605#:~:text=Mackerel%20showed%20a%20normal%20pattern,ambiguous%20in%20the%20spawning%20season. |journal=Progress in Oceanography |volume=213 |pages=103017 |doi=10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103017 |bibcode=2023PrOce.21303017Y |issn=0079-6611}}</ref>

For example, adult [[snake mackerel]], conduct a [[diel vertical migration]], staying in deeper water during the day and rising to the surface at night to feed. The young and juveniles also migrate vertically, but in the opposite direction, staying near the surface during the day and moving deeper at night.<ref name="burton">{{cite book |title=International Wildlife Encyclopedia |author=Burton, R. |publisher=Marshall Cavendish |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-7614-7266-7}}</ref> 

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