Iâm Dick Bolles. This is my site, and itâs designed to be a complement and supplement to my book, What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers, revised and rewritten each year, each new edition appearing in bookstores in mid-August. That would be the 2015 edition currently.
Once cooked the color is white, and the texture is soft, moist, and flaky. Like Spanish mackerel (see below), jack have a sweet, mild flavor. Jack mackerel is commonly canned. King mackerel (kingfish): Similar in taste to Atlantic and Pacific mackerel, king mackerel has a firm texture and a rich, savory flavor. Pacific mackerel (chub, blue): These are similar both in flavor and in texture to Boston mackerel.
About 21 species in the family Scombridae are commonly called mackerel. The type species for the scombroid mackerel is the Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus. Until recently, it was thought that Atlantic chub mackerel and Indo-Pacific chub mackerel were subspecies of the same species. The Chilean jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi), the most intensively harvested mackerel-like species, is found in the south Pacific from West Australia to the coasts of Chile and Peru. 2  A sister species, the Pacific jack mackerel (Trachurus symmetricus), is found in the north Pacific.