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The fish can grow up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) in length with a lifespan of as long as 14 years. Hake may be found in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean in waters from 200 to 350 metres (660 to 1,150 ft) deep. The fish stay in deep water during the day and come to shallower depths during the night.
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 red hake or squirrel hake fish, Urophycis chuss, is a species of phycid hake. It is found in the Atlantic Ocean at depths between 10 and 500 m. It grows to about 30 in (75 cm) and 7 lb (3.2 kg). Red hake are edible, and are sought out by recreational fisherman as a gamefish.
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 paradoxus, the deep-water Cape hake, is a merluccid hake of the genus Merluccius, found in the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean, along the coast of Southern Africa, south of Angola. Its range extends in decreasing abundance around the southern coast of Africa and into the Indian Ocean , but it is at its most plentiful in the cold ...
Spawning season for the white hake starts in late winter or early spring. It has been difficult to study the breeding habits of the white hake due to researchers’ issue with finding ripe females. Studies have found that larvae for the species occur in warm Slope Sea waters, but further along in development, the species can be found in ...