Description
The body profile very similar to other scads and some other carangids, with an oblong, compressed body and dorsal and ventral profiles which are almost evenly convex. There are two moderately high, separate dorsal fins, the first of which has eight spines, while the second has a single spine followed by 23 to 25 soft rays. The anal fin has two detached spines followed by one spine connected to 18 to 20 soft rays. The anterior section of the lateral line is strongly curved, containing thirty one to thirty six scales, while the straight section consists of seventy seven to eighty five scutes.
Size
Maximum length: 40.0 cm (TL), common length: 15-30 cm (TL)
Diet
Feed on shrimps, copepods, decapods larvae and other crustacean larvae and small fish
Utilization
Fresh consumption.
Gears
Purse seine, gillnet, trawl.