With buoyant international hake markets, competition between processors ensured high quayside prices that, together with unregulated access to fishing grounds, created an artisanal fishing boom.
These figures are indicative - rather than definitive - as the pelagic figures relate to aggregate fishmeal and oil exports, while the demersal data is for frozen and fresh\chilled hake only.
The restrictions on fishing for hake, for example, will cause serious problems for pelagic horse mackerel trawling.
There are herring, hake, blue whiting, oysters and krill—every type of fish imaginable.
They often come back at 2.30 in the morning with their catches of cod, haddock, hake and the like.
Secondly, the rules should also apply to ships of less than 12 metres in order to provide better protection for young hake.
I would admit that there are, however, some doubts about the state of hake stocks.
However, we also understand that the two species at most serious risk of collapse are cod and northern hake.
