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Sardinella lemuru
Sardinella lemuru, the Bali sardinella (lemuru), is a small schooling pelagic herring of the tropical Indo-West Pacific, 15-100 m depth, supporting major fisheries in the Bali Strait and the Philippines; long misidentified as S. longiceps.
Scomber colias
Scomber colias (Atlantic chub mackerel, Gmelin 1789) is a Scombridae pelagic fish of warm Atlantic waters, Mediterranean and southern Black Sea; max 55 cm, zooplankton feeder, IUCN Least Concern, distinct from S. japonicus.
Scomber japonicus
Scomber japonicus (chub mackerel, Pacific chub mackerel) is a Scombridae fish of subtropical Pacific and Indian Ocean waters, fished heavily by Japan, Korea, and China; Atlantic populations are now classed as Scomber colias.
Scomberesox saurus
Scomberesox saurus, the Atlantic saury (skipper, Makrelenhecht), a slender epipelagic saury of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean; schooling planktivore to 50 cm, depth 0-30 m, IUCN Least Concern, minor commercial and bait use.
Scomberomorus commerson
Scomberomorus commerson, the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel or kingfish, is a large Indo-West Pacific scombrid pelagic predator, a highly commercial, overfished food and game fish, Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List.
Scombridae
Scombridae, the mackerels, tunas, and bonitos, is a family of epipelagic marine fishes in Scombriformes with 15 genera and about 49-55 species, including endothermic tunas and the largest bony fishes.
Sebastes mentella
Sebastes mentella, deepwater redfish or beaked redfish (sébaste atlantique), a deep-dwelling North Atlantic rockfish (Sebastidae) from the Scotian Shelf to the Barents Sea; ovoviviparous, max age 75 years, managed in multiple stocks with ICES zero-catch advice in the Irminger Sea.
Seriola dumerili
Seriola dumerili, the greater amberjack (medregal coronado, sériole couronnée), is a circumglobal carangid fish of warm seas, reaching 190 cm and 80.6 kg, fished commercially and farmed, with IUCN status Least Concern.
Skipjack tuna
Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), also called ocean bonito or aku, is the world's most-caught tuna, a surface-schooling tropical tuna of all oceans taken mainly for canning, with record 2024 WCPO catch of 2,107,666 tonnes.
Smelt (fish)
Smelt (Osmeridae) are small, silvery Northern Hemisphere fish with marine, anadromous and freshwater forms, including rainbow smelt, eulachon, Delta smelt, and the European smelt Osmerus eperlanus; several species are fished commercially and several are threatened.
Snailfish
Snailfishes (Liparidae) are a family of marine ray-finned fishes with scale-less, elongate bodies and a sucking disk, holding the vertebrate depth record at 8,336 m.
Sphyraena borealis
Sphyraena borealis, the northern sennet or picudilla, is a small western Atlantic barracuda (to 50 cm) from Nova Scotia to Brazil, schooling in coastal waters 10-65 m, feeding on small fishes, squids, and shrimps; IUCN Least Concern.
Sprat
Sprat (Sprattus sprattus, European sprat, brisling) is a small clupeid forage fish of the Northeast Atlantic, Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea; a zooplankton predator, prey for fish, seabirds, and mammals, and a major fishmeal and canned-fish species.
Stomiiformes
Stomiiformes (Stomiatiformes), dragonfishes and allies: an order of over 400 exclusively deep-sea ray-finned fishes with photophores, counterillumination, far-red vision in loosejaws, and a recently revised family-level classification.
Swordfish
Swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also broadbill or espada: a large migratory billfish of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans with a sword-like bill, up to 50 mph speed, no adult scales or teeth, and major ICCAT-managed fisheries.
Thaleichthys pacificus
Thaleichthys pacificus, the eulachon or candlefish, is an anadromous Pacific smelt from northern California to southwest Alaska, famed for its ~20% oil content, grease-trade culture, and threatened southern DPS listed under the ESA since 2010.
Thunnus maccoyii
Thunnus maccoyii, the southern bluefin tuna, is a large southern-hemisphere tuna spawning only off Java, listed IUCN Endangered, and managed by the CCSBT under quotas of 20,647 t (2024-2026).
Thunnus obesus
Thunnus obesus, bigeye tuna (ahi, patudo), a large Scombridae tuna of tropical Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans; large eye, black-edged finlets, deep daytime dives, physiological thermoregulation; Atlantic and Indian Ocean stocks overfished, Pacific stocks not.
Thunnus orientalis
Thunnus orientalis, Pacific bluefin tuna, a large North Pacific tuna managed as one stock. Overfished to ~2% of unfished biomass by 2010, rebuilt past the 20% target by 2021; fishery worth nearly $1 billion a year.
Thunnus tonggol
Thunnus tonggol, the longtail tuna (also wrongly called northern bluefin tuna), is a small neritic tuna of the Indo-West Pacific, 47°N–33°S, up to 142 cm and 35.9 kg, slow-growing, IUCN Data Deficient, fished heavily in the Indian Ocean.
Trachinotus carolinus
Trachinotus carolinus, the Florida pompano (Atlantic pompano), a carangid food and sport fish from Cape Cod to Brazil; small-scale aquaculture established, high market value, evening feeding outperforms preferred morning feeding.
Trachurus japonicus
Trachurus japonicus (Japanese jack mackerel, Japanese horse mackerel) is a carangid fish of the Northwest Pacific, from southern Japan and Korea to the East China Sea, a highly commercial schooling species, IUCN Near Threatened, with major purse-seine fisheries and commercial aquaculture.
Trachurus mediterraneus
Trachurus mediterraneus, Mediterranean horse mackerel (jurel mediterráneo), a Carangidae jack of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic; bycatch fishery, Lm 20 cm, IUCN Least Concern, distinct Black Sea and Aegean stocks.
Trachurus trachurus
Trachurus trachurus, the Atlantic horse mackerel (also European horse mackerel, jurel), is a carangid fish from Norway to South Africa and the Mediterranean, fished commercially and listed IUCN Vulnerable.
Trichiurus lepturus
Trichiurus lepturus, the largehead hairtail or Atlantic cutlassfish, is a ribbon-like cutlassfish (Trichiuridae) of tropical and temperate seas, among the world's top ten landed fish; overfished in the East China Sea, Least Concern globally.
Tuna
Tuna: large Scombridae oceanic fish with thunniform swimming, endothermic red muscle, and retia heat exchangers; 23 commercial stocks managed by five RFMOs; main products canned tuna and sashimi.
Wahoo
Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri, also called ono) is a monotypic, worldwide tropical scombrid gamefish reaching 210 cm and 96 kg, caught mainly as longline bycatch; IUCN Least Concern, data-poor stocks.
Yellowfin tuna
Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), also called ahi or kihada, is a large tropical tuna of all three oceans, up to 6 ft and 400 lb, fished by purse seine, longline, and baitboat; IUCN Least Concern since 2021, with the Indian Ocean stock rebuilt after overfishing from 2015 to 2021.
Yellowtail amberjack
Yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi), also called yellowtail kingfish or hiramasa, is a large carangid gamefish of subtropical seas, split into three species, farmed in Japan and Australasia, and fished in South Africa and Australia.