HAKE » Merluccius hubssi
English common name:
Argentine hake
External distinguishing characteristics:
Elongated and spindle body, covered with cycloid scales.
Head large and robust. Mouth terminal, equipped with strong and sharp teeth.
Two dorsal fins, origin of the first thing behind his head, clearly second separate from the first. The pectoral fins are born before the first dorsal, the ventral ahead of them. Anal similar to the second dorsal. Truncated flow.
Coloring. Gray head and back in white chalk on the ventral area, with iridescence golden reflections on the entire body. Dorsal fins, pectoral, caudal and posterior third the anal dark gray, two thirds of the previous anal and ventral transparent.
Distinction of similar species in the area:
Common hake is very similar to the South. see what it says to the address that species.
Size:
The maximum size observed for females is 95 cm and 60 cm for males. The adults frequent catches are between 35 and 70 cm in length, but 80% is consisting of sizes ranging from 25 to 40 cm, with 2 to 4 years old. Average values size increases with latitude and also with depth.
Other biological characteristics:
Hake is a player that provides partial put most of the year, with two periods more intensive, the winter season (May-July) in the northern summer and its distribution (October to March) in the coastal zone norpatagónica. The fertility of female part – 38 and 58 cm in total length ranges from 267,400 to 432,200 per start. Eggs are spherical with a diameter of about 0818 mm and oily drop intense. The time between fertilization rates and hatching is about 5 days, 12 º C temperature. Since the 20 mm total length, the larvae have completed the training of its wings and begin to make daily rhythm of vertical migration as adults.
It is a carnivorous species, predatory and opportunistic, zooplanctófaga even par excellence 30-35 cm, with frequent cases of cannibalism in areas where there are youth and adults of the species. Reaches 14 years of age.
Geographical distribution and behavior:
Lives from the vicinity of Cabo Frio, in southern Brazil to Argentina, depths between 50 and 500 m, with an average depth of 200m more frequent.
Tolerate a temperature range of between 3 and 18 º C.
Performed two types of migration, a vertical of daily, and the other in respect horizontal, seasonal rhythm.
Size of the resource:
Big.
Fishing fleet and gear catch:
The species is mainly caught by the fleet of tall ships but Coastal, located in Mar del Plata, Quequén, San Antonio, Puerto Madryn, Rawson and Comodoro Rivadavia, fishing in the air around those ports. The art is the network of employee bottom trawling.
Form of use:
It is the basis of the fishing industry aregtina. It exports mainly as filet Frozen in presentations of various kinds (fish block or interleave). The filet can be with little or no spine spine, which is on the cutting V. It also exports gutted and headed in a variety of presentations.
