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In contrast to gadoids such as the cods which have been harvested for centuries, large-scale hake fishing started only recently when cod stocks were no longer able to meet the demand for ‘whitefish meat’ after serious depletion in the 1950s and 1960s (Anon., 1990). Today, the genus Merluccius is one of the most heavily fished demersal finfish groups. Almost two million tonnes of hake are caught annually in both Northern and Southern Hemisphere Atlantic and Pacific waters, but not in the Indian Ocean.
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Pitcher, T.J., Alheit, J. (1995). What makes a hake? A review of the critical biological features that sustain global hake fisheries. In: Alheit, J., Pitcher, T.J. (eds) Hake. Chapman & Hall Fish and Fisheries Series, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1300-7_1
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