竹荚鱼又叫刺鲅、大目鳀、巴浪、山鲐鱼、黄鲭等。其形态体长,稍侧扁,背部青褐色,腹部白色,体披圆鳞,侧面为大型棱鳞。头尖,口大,口中有尖细牙。背鳍两个,尾鳍叉形。体长约40厘米,常见个体在2千克以下。生活习性竹荚鱼为温暖水中上层洄游性鱼类,主要分布在我国南海、东海和黄海南部海域。它一般栖息于10～100米的中下层水域,在产卵期到来时 Horse mackerel, also known as stingray, eyesight, bar, mountain bream, yellow mackerel and so on. Its shape body length, slightly lateral flat, brown back, white belly, body with round scales, large lateral scales. Tip, mouth big mouth with sharp teeth. Dorsal fin two, caudal fin forked. Body length of about 40 cm, common in less than 2 kg. Habits of habit of horse mackerel warm water upper migratory fish, mainly distributed in China’s South China Sea, the East China Sea and the southern Yellow Sea. It generally inhabit 10 to 100 meters in the middle and lower waters, when the arrival of the spawning period