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The fish stay in deep water during the day and come to shallower depths during the night. An undiscerning predator, hake feed on prey found near or on the bottom of the sea. Male and female hake are very similar in appearance. [3] After spawning, the hake eggs float on the surface of the sea where the larvae develop. After a certain period of ...
Compared to other hake species, the Argentine hake has a higher longevity that can be linked to the species' high egg production. Sizes and life spans in these hakes also differ, with females growing and living longer than their male counter parts.
The merlucciidae, commonly called merluccid hakes / m ər ˈ l uː tʃ ɪ d /, [1] [2] are a family of cod-like fish, including most hakes. [3] They are native to cold water in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and typically are found at depths greater than 50 m (160 ft) in subtropical, temperate, sub-Arctic or sub-Antarctic regions.
Merluccius capensis (shallow-water Cape hake or South African hake) is a ray-finned fish in the genus Merluccius, found in the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean, along the coast of South Africa. It is a long, lean fish with a large head, similar in appearance to the European hake and the deep-water Cape hake .
Merluccius merluccius or the European hake is a merluccid hake of the genus Merluccius.Other vernacular names include Cornish salmon and herring hake.It is a predatory species, which was often netted alongside one of its favoured prey, the Atlantic herring, hence the latter common name.
Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758) (European hake) Merluccius paradoxus Franca, 1960 (deep-water cape hake) Merluccius patagonicus Lloris & Matallanas, 2003 (Patagonian hake) Merluccius polli Cadenat, 1950 (Benguela hake) Merluccius productus (Ayres, 1855) (North Pacific hake) Merluccius senegalensis Cadenat, 1950 (Senegalese hake)
The Panama Hake is a demersal, bathypelagic species which occurs from the shallow continental shelf at 80m to the upper continental slope as deep as 500m, as well as in the ocean's midwaters and over sea mounts such as Uncle Sam Bank. [3] It has pelagic eggs and larvae and feeds on fish and invertebrates. [1]
The blue grenadier (also known as hoki, blue hake, New Zealand whiptail, or whiptail hake, Macruronus novaezelandiae) is a merluccid hake of the family Merlucciidae found around southern Australia and New Zealand, as well as off both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America from Peru to Brazil [1] at depths of between 10 and 1,000 m (33 and 3,300 ft).