Nathalie Chiva > wrote:

>I was going to have some pickled herring today for lunch but, herring
>and mackerel being close friends, I didn't dare <sigh>

Mackerel is more closely related to tuna than it is to herring.

Hopefully your allergic reaction is a one-off thing that will
not return. (And possibly, it wasn't even the mackerel, but
something else in your environment.)

Steve