The species of hake, making up the genus Merluccius, are commercially important and currently largely over exploited, with many stocks badly depleted and showing only limited signs of recovery. With the demand for hake and hake products far outstripping supply, there is an urgent need for a book synthesizing the major aspects of the biology and fisheries of these important species of fishes.
Hakes: Biology and Exploitation brings together a huge wealth of important information on all main species of hakes. Chapters in this thorough and well edited book cover hakes in all the major world regions where they make up an important commercial contribution to the fisheries of that area.
Commencing with an introductory chapter, each following chapter covers an important geographical region and the hake species found there, and includes important information on the biology and fisheries of each species in an ecological and environmental context.
With chapters written by regional experts on hake species and included within Wiley-Blackwell’s prestigious Fish and Aquatic Resources Series, Edited by Professor Tony Pitcher, Hakes provides a wealth of up-to-date and useful information for all those involved in fisheries management, aquatic ecology and biological sciences. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where fisheries and biological sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this important source of information on their shelves.
List of contributors ix
Preface xvii
Acknowledgement xxi
1 European hake (Merluccius merluccius) in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean 1
Maria Korta, Dorleta García, Marina Santurtún, Nerea Goikoetxea, Eider
Andonegi, Hilario Murua, Paula Álvarez, Santiago Cerviño, José Castro and
Arantza Murillas
2 Fisheries, ecology and markets of South African hake 38
M. D. Durholtz, L. Singh, T. P. Fairweather, R. W. Leslie, C.D. van der
Lingen, C. A. R. Bross, L. Hutchings, R. A. Rademeyer, D. S. Butterworth and
A. I. L. Payne
3 Biology and fisheries of the shallow-water hake (Merluccius capensis) and
the deep-water hake (Merluccius paradoxus) in Namibia 70
M. R. Wilhelm, C. H. Kirchner, J. P. Roux, A. Jarre, J. A. Iitembu, J. N.
Kathena and P. Kainge
4 Southern hake (Merluccius australis) in New Zealand: biology, fisheries
and stock assessment 101
Peter L. Horn
5 The biology, fishery and market of Chilean hake (Merluccius gayi gayi) in
the Southeastern Pacific Ocean 126
C. Gatica, S. Neira, H. Arancibia and S. Vásquez
6 Biology and fishery of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) and southern hake
(Merluccius australis) around the Falkland/Malvinas Islands on the Patagonian
Shelf of the Southwest Atlantic Ocean 154
A. I. Arkhipkin, V. V. Laptikhovsky and A. J. Barton
7 The biology and fishery of hake (Merluccius hubbsi) in the
ArgentineanUruguayan Common Fishing Zone of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean
185
María Inés Lorenzo and Omar Defeo
8 Biology and fisheries of hake (Merluccius hubbsi) in Brazilian waters,
Southwestern Atlantic Ocean 211
André Martins Vaz-dos-Santos and Paulo Ricardo Schwingel
9 Biology, fisheries, assessment and management of Pacific hake (Merluccius
productus) 234
Owen S. Hamel, Patrick H. Ressler, Rebecca E. Thomas, Daniel A. Waldeck,
Allan C. Hicks, John A. Holmes and Guy W. Fleischer
10 Biology and fisheries of New Zealand hoki (Macruronus novaezelandiae)
263
Mary E. Livingston, Rosemary J. Hurst, Richard L. ODriscoll, Andy McKenzie,
Sira L. Ballara and Peter L. Horn
11 Biology, fishery and products of Chilean hoki (Macruronus novaezelandiae
magellanicus) 294
Rubén Alarcún and Hugo Arancibia
12 An overview of hake and hoki fisheries: analysis of biological, fishery
and economic indicators 324
Arancibia Hugo, Tony Pitcher and Mary Livingston
Index 341
About the Editor Hugo Arancibia is Marine Biologist, Titular Professor at the University of Concepcion (Chile), Dr. Rerum Nature from the University of Bremen (Germany) and Diplom in Competence Assessment from the Major University of Santiago (Chile). At present he is Director of the Doctorate Program in Management of Aquatic Living Resources at his university and gives lectures in research and innovation projects, biology of marine exploited populations and others. His fields of interest are R+D in new fishing resources and the use of indicators in fisheries management.
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