Available wild-caught, it is a marine fish schooling in open waters, and sometimes moving in to inshore bays and estuaries, around the northern half of Australia from Newcastle (NSW) to Shark Bay (WA). Mainly caught off Queensland and the NT, it looks like a small Spanish Mackerel but with distinctive large grey spots on the back half of the body, though these begin to fade once the fish is caught. The similar Spotted Mackerel has smaller spots along the sides.