The Government-Analyst Food and Drug Department (GAFDD) has issued a consumer advisory to consumers and the general public about the canned fish product with a given common name “Jack Mackerel” which is either Pacific Jack Mackerel also known as Californian Jack Mackerel, or Chilean Jack Mackerel also known Inca Scad.
According to a media release from the GAFDD, while there are many other species of mackerel fish found throughout the world the “Jack Mackerel” species are distributed only along the Western Coast of North America, in the South Pacific off the coast of Chile