Distribution:

Western Atlantic: Bermuda, North Carolina, and south to southern Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Mediterranean, Azores, Madeira, Canaries, Cape Verde, Ascension and St. Helena Is. Indo-Pacific: South Africa, Japan, Hawaii, Australia, Lord Howe and Norfolk islands; and New Zealand. Reported from New Caledonia. Occurrence in Taiwan needs verification.

Diagnosis:

Dorsal spines (total): 9-9; Dorsal softrays (total): 25-26; Anal spines: 3-3; Anal soft-rays: 21-22; Vertebrates: 25-25. Greenish blue above, silvery white below; midside of body with yellow stripe; opercle with black spot. LL with 20-26 scutes. With maxilla the rear edge sloping slightly forward to its main axis, a large, diffuse dark blotch on the operculum, and a lateral line with 57-78 scales in the curved portion and 34-46 posterior scutes.

Biology:

Occur in bays and coastal waters, including estuaries. Juveniles usually inhabit estuaries, bays and shallow continental shelf waters, while adults form schools near the sea bed on the continental shelf. Schools are found at the surface, in mid-water and on the bottom and are often associated with reefs and rough bottom. Schools are sometimes mixed with Caranx koheru and Arripis trutta trutta. Feed on plankton and bottom invertebrates. Cultured only in Japan. One of the best table fish 'being indeed the salmon of St. Helena'.

Max. size: 122.0 cm

Max.weight: 19 Kg

Environment: benthopelagic; depth range 80 - 200 m

Climate: tropical; 40°N - 47°S

Canary Islands country information: Name: Jurel