Usage examples (30)

• Captain Cherry caught a little mackerel about six or eight inches long and I caught a little speckled sea bass about the same size, so we had food for a couple of days
• At first we baited with pieces of white linen, as the mackerel is a greedy fish, and will bite at any glittering object in the water.
• Kala -- a fish akin to our mackerel which is often extracted of oil for other use before making into fishcakes
• Buckling is a hot smoked product made from herring although other similar fish such as mackerel could be substituted.