Mackerel as food: Difference between revisions

For many years mackerel was regarded as unclean in the UK and elsewhere due to folklore which suggested that the fish fed on the corpses of dead sailors.<ref name = BBCandrew>{{Cite web|last=McFarlane|first=Andrew|date=2010-08-24|title=Why is Britain braced for a mackerel war?|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11062674|access-date=2022-08-02|website=[[BBC News]]|language=en}}</ref> A 1976 survey of housewives in Britain undertaken by the [[Sea Fish Industry Authority|White Fish Authority]] indicated a reluctance to departing from buying the traditional staples of cod, haddock or salmon. Less than 10% of the survey's 1,931 respondents had ever bought mackerel and only 3% did so regularly. As a result of this trend many UK fishmongers during the 1970s did not display or even stock mackerel.<ref name = BBCandrew/> For the sake of the taste, people are ready to take health risks and suffer after consuming the unpreserved version of this fish.