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Chilean hake

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General

Cod-like fish

Cod-like fishes belong to the Gadidae family. This includes the Atlantic and Pacific cod, pouting, haddock, whiting, European pollock, Alaska pollock and saithe. They live near the seabed in coastal waters and in deeper waters. During the day, they aggregate in schools. At night, they separate to forage independently. Gadidae are omnivorous fish that feed on worms, molluscs, bivalves, crustaceans and small fish. They migrate over large distances to spawn and to hunt on large schools of herring and smelt.

 

 

Chilean hake

Chilean whiting, or southern Pacific hake, can be found near the seafloor at large depths ranging from 50-500 metres. This hake predates at night to hunt for squid, fish and krill at lesser depths. In spring, these fish migrate to the coast and reproduce in the summer. Come winter, they migrate back to deeper waters.

Chilean hake

Merluccius gayi gayi
Origin

Pacific Ocean, northeast (FAO 67)

Farming- / Catch method

Bottom trawls

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Fish stocks and fishing pressure
Ecosystem effects
Fishery management
Final assessment
Explanation assessment

Hake have been heavily overfishedOverfished:
A stock is overfished when the stock size has decreased so far that it can no longer produce a maximum sustainable yield. The size of the fish populations is insufficient to reproduce in the long term. 
in the past. The fishing pressureFishing pressure:
Fishing pressure is a result of the fishing effort/amount of fishing on a stock, which determines the fishing mortality. Fishing mortality is the share of the fish stock that dies annually as a result of fishing.
has now been reduced significantly, but it is questionable whether the stockStock:
The fish of a particular species reproducing in the same area in the same period. 
will recover within the next few years. To prevent the hake stock from collapsing, fishing pressure must be reduced even further.

Hake are caught with bottomBottom trawls:
A fishing technique in which cone-shaped nets terminating in a codend are dragged through the water column or along the bottom.
trawls. Discarding fish back into the sea is a problem with this fishing method. Many of these discardsDiscards:
Unwanted by-catch, which is thrown back because there is no quota, the market price is too low, or the fish is below the legal minimum landing size. Discards can be alive or dead.
consist of juvenile hake, as well as vulnerable sharks, rays, birds and whales. Much of the discards do not survive. Bottom trawling also disturbs the seabed. In time, intensive fishing leads to an altered species composition.

After the stockStock:
The fish of a particular species reproducing in the same area in the same period. 
collapsed in 2004, the managementManagement:
The regulations surrounding fisheries and aquaculture that ensure that production is carried out within legal frameworks and that sustainability can be assured.
of hake was tightened up considerably. Unfortunately, this tightened policy has not yet led to stock recovery. Management of this species is not effective.

ASC label

Fish with the ASC label is farmed in a sustainable manner.

MSC label

Fish with the MSC label is caught sustainably.

Good fish

This fish is not being overfished or is being responsibly farmed, with minimal impact on the environment.

Second choice

This fish is a second choice. There are still some improvements to be made in this fishery or fish farm.

Avoid

Do not buy this fish. It's being overfished or the way it's farmed or caught has a negative impact on the environment.

Welfare

There is fish available of this species that is farmed or caught using high welfare standards.

GlobalG.A.P.

GlobalG.A.P. certified farms are doing a step in the right direction in terms of sustainability. A few species with this label are getting a better score on the VISwijzer.

Organic

Organic standards are the strictest when it comes to fish feed. They also require certain measures for animal well-being.

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