. The Canadian field-naturalist. Notes The Atlantic Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus, New to Nova Scotia and Canada John Gilhen1 and Don E. McAllister2 â Nova Scotia Museum, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3A6 2Ichthyology Section, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario KIP 6P4 Gilhen, John, and D. E. McAllister. 1989. The Atlantic Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus, new to Nova Scotia and Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist 103(2): 287-289. A single Atlantic Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus taken by Victor Kiley off S
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Notes The Atlantic Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus, New to Nova Scotia and Canada John Gilhen1 and Don E. McAllister2 â Nova Scotia Museum, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3A6 2Ichthyology Section, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario KIP 6P4 Gilhen, John, and D. E. McAllister. 1989. The Atlantic Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus, new to Nova Scotia and Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist 103(2): 287-289. A single Atlantic Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus taken by Victor Kiley off Sauls Island 44°28' 25"N, 63° 47' 00"W, 4 October 1985, is the first record for Canadian waters. The species has previously been taken north as far as Monhegan Island, Maine. Spots on its sides, a black area on the front of the first dorsal fin and high vertebral count distinguish it from other Canadian Scombridae. Its occurrence in Nova Scotian waters does not appear to be explainable by passive transplant in the Gulf Stream as is invoked for northern records of less active swimmers. Key Words: Atlantic Spanish Mackerel, Thazard atlantique, Scomberomorus maculatus, Sauls Island, Nova Scotia. A fish taken by Victor Kiley, off Sauls Island, the Prospect area of Halifax County, Nova Scotia at 44° 28' 25"N, 63° 47'00"W, on 4 October 1985, is here identified as the Atlantic Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus (Mitchell, 1815). This substantiates the record, cited from this paper in manuscript, in Scott and Scott (1988) and previously unknown from Canadian waters. The Atlantic Spanish Mackerel has been commonly reported north only to Cape Cod (Collette and Russo 1984), although it has been taken at Lynn, Massachussetts, and at Monhegan Island, Maine (B. B. Collette, personal communications to DEM 1987). The specimen is catalogued as Nova Scotia Museum 985-85-1(1). Its preserved total length was 375 mm, fork length 325 mm, and standard length 310
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