Australia: Altocumulus Clouds Appear Over Brisbane, Signaling Weather Shift

Queensland braces for a cold, rainy start to August, with maximum temperatures dropping up to 10 degrees below average. Altocumulus clouds, commonly known as "mackerel skies," were seen over Brisbane. These wave-like cloud patterns often signal changing weather or approaching atmospheric instability.

Seafood processing production complex in ZaporizhzhiaSeafood processing production complex in Zaporizhzhia

Seafood processing production complex in ZaporizhzhiaSeafood processing production complex in Zaporizhzhia

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 20, 2024 - An employee puts packaged mackerels into a cardboard box at a seafood processing production complex in Zaporizhzhia, southestern Ukraine.

Dried Seafood Products

Dried Seafood Products

QINGDAO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 3, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are dried on Gujia Island, a new area on the west coast of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Nov 3, 2024.

Dried Seafood Products

Dried Seafood Products

QINGDAO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 3, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are dried on Gujia Island, a new area on the west coast of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Nov 3, 2024.

Dried Seafood Products

Dried Seafood Products

QINGDAO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 3, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are dried on Gujia Island, a new area on the west coast of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Nov 3, 2024.

Dried Seafood Products

Dried Seafood Products

QINGDAO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 3, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are dried on Gujia Island, a new area on the west coast of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Nov 3, 2024.

Dried Seafood Products

Dried Seafood Products

QINGDAO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 3, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are dried on Gujia Island, a new area on the west coast of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Nov 3, 2024.

Dried Seafood Products

Dried Seafood Products

QINGDAO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 3, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are dried on Gujia Island, a new area on the west coast of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Nov 3, 2024.

Dried Seafood Products

Dried Seafood Products

QINGDAO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 3, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are dried on Gujia Island, a new area on the west coast of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Nov 3, 2024.

Dried Seafood Products

Dried Seafood Products

QINGDAO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 3, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are dried on Gujia Island, a new area on the west coast of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Nov 3, 2024.

Dried Seafood Products

Dried Seafood Products

QINGDAO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 3, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are dried on Gujia Island, a new area on the west coast of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Nov 3, 2024.

Dried Seafood Products

Dried Seafood Products

QINGDAO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 3, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are dried on Gujia Island, a new area on the west coast of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Nov 3, 2024.

Seafood Supply at Jimiya Fishing Port in Qingdao

Seafood Supply at Jimiya Fishing Port in Qingdao

QINGDAO, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2024 - Spanish mackerel are seen on the dock at Jimiya Fishing port in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao, Shandong province, China, Sept 28, 2024.

[Breaking News]Sardines, mackerel washed up on northern Japan beach

HAKODATE, Japan Kyodo - A large number of sardines and mackerel are washed up on a beach in Hakodate, northern Japan, on Dec. 7, 2023. (Kyodo)

Sardines, mackerel washed up on northern Japan beach

Sardines, mackerel washed up on northern Japan beach

A large number of sardines and mackerel are washed up on a beach in Hakodate, northern Japan, on Dec. 7, 2023.

Sardines, mackerel washed up on northern Japan beach

Sardines, mackerel washed up on northern Japan beach

A large number of sardines and mackerel are washed up on a beach in Hakodate, northern Japan, on Dec. 7, 2023.

Podil in Kyiv

Podil in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 30, 2023 - Men walk past graffiti that means 'mackerel' in the historic neighbourhood of Podil, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

Penguin in Matsue gets 'White Day' treat

Penguin in Matsue gets 'White Day' treat

MATSUE, Japan - Takeshi Notsu, a zookeeper at Matsue Vogel Park, feeds horse mackerel from a heart-shaped bowl to 10-year-old female penguin Sakura as a present for "White Day" on March 12, 2014, in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture in western Japan. In Japan, women send gifts to men on Valentine's Day and men return the favor on White Day on March 14. Sakura has been frequently chasing and staying close to Notsu in apparent courtship behaviors.

Astronaut Wakata

Astronaut Wakata

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata (L) presents canned mackerel for use as space food to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 24, 2013. Wakata is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Nov. 7. He will become the first Japanese skipper of the ISS during the latter half of his mission.

Japanese chef in Britain

Japanese chef in Britain

LONDON, Britain - Yoshinori Ishii (front) from Japan, head chef at UMU in London, goes fishing for mackerel with a local fisherman in a boat off Cornwall, southwestern Britain, in May 2012. (Photo by Sohei Ide)

Salmon, mackerel harvested in disaster-hit Otsuchi

Salmon, mackerel harvested in disaster-hit Otsuchi

OTSUCHI, Japan - People working at a fish market in the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, sort out harvested fish including salmon and mackerel on Nov. 7, 2011, as the market opened for business for the first time since the March 11 disaster devastated the area.

Japan marks 5 months after disaster

Japan marks 5 months after disaster

MIYAKO, Japan - Mackerel are unloaded at Miyako port in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, five months after the March 11 killer earthquake and tsunami that hit the area. Fisheries in the prefecture, among areas devastated by the disaster, are being revitalized.

Norwegian mackerel

A customs official inspects a mackerel at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 24, 2021, as wild mackerel with a fat content of about 30 percent or more and each fish weighing 500 grams or more arrive from Norway. The fish, with the brand name "Saba Nouveau," were transported to Japan on a Japan Airlines flight within 60 hours after being landed at a fishing port, and were not frozen.

Norwegian mackerel

Norwegian mackerel

Norwegian wild mackerel with a fat content of about 30 percent or more and each fish weighing 500 grams or more arrive at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 24, 2021. The fish, with the brand name "Saba Nouveau," were transported to Japan on a Japan Airlines flight within 60 hours after being landed at a fishing port, and were not frozen.

Norwegian mackerel

Norwegian mackerel

Norwegian wild mackerel with a fat content of about 30 percent or more and each fish weighing 500 grams or more arrive at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 24, 2021. The fish, with the brand name "Saba Nouveau," were transported to Japan on a Japan Airlines flight within 60 hours after being landed at a fishing port, and were not frozen.

Norwegian mackerel

Norwegian mackerel

A customs official inspects a mackerel at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 24, 2021, as wild mackerel with a fat content of about 30 percent or more and each fish weighing 500 grams or more arrive from Norway. The fish, with the brand name "Saba Nouveau," were transported to Japan on a Japan Airlines flight within 60 hours after being landed at a fishing port, and were not frozen.

(2) Fishing

(2) Fishing

FUKUOKA, Japan - Mackerel at the central wholesale market in Fukuoka. The photo was taken on Dec. 12, 2001. (Kyodo)

Local superhero gives away mackerels to eliminate drunk driving

Local superhero gives away mackerels to eliminate drunk driving

Bakushin Barisugor, a superhero of Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, hands a driver a frozen mackerel as a gift and asks for cooperation to eliminate drunk driving ahead of the yearend and New Year party season, in the prefectural capital of Fukuoka on Dec. 11, 2015. The event was organized by the local police station, which prepared 250 frozen mackerels to give away to drivers for the cause. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Measures needed to save fish stocks from dwindling further

Measures needed to save fish stocks from dwindling further

File photo taken in February 2015 shows a catch of Okhotsk atka mackerel, commonly known as "hokke" in Japan, landed at a fishing port in Wakkanai on the northern tip of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture. In addition to a dwindling catch, the average size of the fish caught has also become smaller. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Price of Okhotsk atka mackerel soaring in Japan

Price of Okhotsk atka mackerel soaring in Japan

Photo taken Feb. 21, 2015, shows "hokke," Okhotsk atka mackerel, at Wakkanai Port on Japan's northernmost main island Hokkaido. The price of the used-to-be-inexpensive fish is rising due to a significant decrease in catches in Hokkaido and imports. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Price of Okhotsk atka mackerel soaring in Japan

Price of Okhotsk atka mackerel soaring in Japan

Photo taken Feb. 21, 2015, shows "hokke," Okhotsk atka mackerel, at Wakkanai Port on Japan's northernmost main island Hokkaido. The price of the used-to-be-inexpensive fish is rising due to a significant decrease in catches in Hokkaido and imports. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

HK restaurant marks global 3,000th Japanese food promotional outlet

HK restaurant marks global 3,000th Japanese food promotional outlet

Takanobu Migita (C), president of Sabar, an Osaka-based mackerel specialty restaurant chain operator, receives a "Japanese Food and Ingredient Supporter Store" certificate from Hiroyuki Tanaka (R), director of the business development department at the Hong Kong office of the Japan External Trade Organization, at a ceremony in Hong Kong on June 20, 2018. Looking on is Toshio Himuro, chairman of FFJ Co., a Hong Kong bluefin tuna restaurant operator which has partnered with the Japanese company in launching certificate winner Sabar x Doraya. (NNA/Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan marks 5 months after disaster

Japan marks 5 months after disaster

MIYAKO, Japan - Mackerel are unloaded at Miyako port in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, five months after the March 11 killer earthquake and tsunami that hit the area. Fisheries in the prefecture, among areas devastated by the disaster, are being revitalized. (Kyodo)

Salmon, mackerel harvested in disaster-hit Otsuchi

Salmon, mackerel harvested in disaster-hit Otsuchi

OTSUCHI, Japan - People working at a fish market in the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, sort out harvested fish including salmon and mackerel on Nov. 7, 2011, as the market opened for business for the first time since the March 11 disaster devastated the area. (Kyodo)

"Hokke" fish caught near Russian-held island

"Hokke" fish caught near Russian-held island

A fishing boat heads to waters around Russian-held Kunashiri Island, from a port in Rausu in Hokkaido, northern Japan, in the small hours of Sept. 16, 2020, to catch Okhotsk atka mackerel, commonly known as "hokke" in Japanese. The island is one of the disputed islets called the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.

"Hokke" fish caught near Russian-held island

"Hokke" fish caught near Russian-held island

Okhotsk atka mackerel, commonly known as "hokke" in Japanese, caught in waters around Russian-held Kunashiri Island, is landed at a port in Rausu in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Sept. 16, 2020. The island is one of the disputed islets called the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.

"Hokke" fish caught near Russian-held island

"Hokke" fish caught near Russian-held island

Okhotsk atka mackerel, commonly known as "hokke" in Japanese, caught in waters around Russian-held Kunashiri Island, is landed at a port in Rausu in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Sept. 16, 2020. The island is one of the disputed islets called the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.

Cultivation of mackerel

Cultivation of mackerel

Photo taken on March 5, 2018, shows mackerel cultivated at a land facility in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, the first of its kind in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Cultivation of mackerel

Cultivation of mackerel

A man shows off mackerel during an event held in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on March 5, 2018, to mark Japan's first cultivation of the fish at a land facility in Iwami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Cultivation of mackerel

Cultivation of mackerel

Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai eats mackerel during an event held in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, to mark Japan's first cultivation of the fish at a land facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Cultivation of mackerel

Cultivation of mackerel

Photo taken on March 5, 2018, shows mackerel cultivated at a land facility in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, the first of its kind in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo