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Scad

This fish, sometimes called the horse-mackerel, is common on the south-western shores of England, but is comparatively rare in the North. Sometimes it appears in immense shoals, pursuing the fry of herrings, or similar prey, and the multitudes have sometimes been so numerous and so crowded together that overloaded nets have been torn in pieces: the fish might have been lifted out of the sea in bucketfuls. The flavour of the scad is not unlike that of the mackerel. When fresh, it is not very palatable, but it is often salted, and in that state is in demand as an article of food.