Along the way, they’re often plucked from the water, with some ending up in cases on a wharf in downtown Yarmouth, a small town on the southern tip of Nova Scotia, where in July 2021 volunteers for Seafest are unloading those cases in preparation for one of the fishing festival’s most incongruously popular events: the 12th-annual mackerel toss.Īs he watches preparations from behind the line of sawhorses meant to contain spectators, Dave Warner, Seafest’s former president, explains that mackerel are a logical choice for the event. But a sure sign of summer’s arrival is the sudden presence of Atlantic mackerel, which first appear as the trees are becoming flush with leaves in May, and depart with the coming of cool temperatures in the fall, schooling in enormous numbers on their migration up and down the coast. Summer in Atlantic Canada can be an unreliable thing, emerging reluctantly from the damp cold of spring. Listen now, download, or subscribe to “Hakai Magazine Audio Edition” through your favorite podcast app. This article is also available in audio format.
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Stream or download audio For this article Janu| 3,100 words, about 16 minutes Share this article Photo by Chris Gomersall/2020Vision/Minden Pictures Holy Mackerel, Where’d You Go? A beloved fish with a rich history has become hard to find-will it rise again? Authored by This highly migratory fish is caught for food and bait in recreational and commercial fisheries and is an important link in marine food webs. Mackerel have an eastern and a western population in the Atlantic.
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