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Mackerel water temperature range


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I see in another post that H.A. mentions 15deg C as a reasonable minimum water temp for mackerel to show, but is there an upper limit?

 

I ask because I'm told that around here the mackerel are a winter fish. The temp right now is 20 and getting warmer.

 

Thanks.

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I've caught mackerel from various locations around the UK all through the year - the most memorable was out of Littlehampton late December when the river had started to freeze!

Ada's right about the optimum temperature that brings the mackerel in to feed - it's all to do with zooplankton and phytoplankton and loads more sciency stuff!

Of course there is also the fact that warmer water speeds up digestion in pelagic species such as the mackerel, so they will naturally move inshore to shallower, warmer water to grow bigger, quicker!

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