International Name: South Pacific Hake

Scientific Name: Merluccius baranya baranya

The hake is the common name of several fish of sea, the order of gadiformes. Measure 80 to 130 cm in length, has the body lengthened and tablet sideways. It brown or blackish color at the top, grey on flanks and silver in the region ventral. Lives in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific South. These fish conducted two types of migrations: one of a daily basis, rising during the night to the upper layers of the sea to feed and falling during the day. The second type is seasonal, related to reproductive cycle of each species. All varieties are exploited as fishery resource of the countries where they are, both for domestic consumption as for export to the rest of the world. The species more exploited on hake common (hubbsi), to be a resource of great size and the most known among consumers. It was the Processing predominantly as steak and eviscerada and descabezada among other ways. The intensive catches of this variety in the basin Argentine fishing caused to fall drastically its population. The hake tail is a resource least exploited by ignorance of the size of the resource, the limitations for their processing and the little knowledge in the market on this product. Its main utilities are like steak and IT. The fishing gear used for catch are networks bottom trawling and also with semi angler longline.

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