Atlantic mackerel; Scomber scombrus 45; and fishermen on a large boat fishing for mackerel with long lines and hooks; and in a small boat with a mackerel net; 18th century. Handcolored copperplate engraving after Jacob Nilson from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish; Augsburg; 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.