Common Name
Pacific Hake
Scientific Name
Merluccius productus
The Gulf of Califonia hake fishery is a relatively recent fishery, carried out by 80 permitted vessels. These vessels operate mainly out of Sonora and Baja Califonia states. The fishery produces between 5,000 and 7,000 tons a year and is expected to soon be managed under a quota system. This hake FIP will focus on issues related to fishery-specific management objectives, the definition of HCRs, and defining appropriate reference points. Providing additional and more detailed information regarding its impacts on habitats and ecosystems is also of paramount importance in this FIP.
| 36% | 64% |
| 18% |
| Behind | On Track | Complete | Future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9% | 73% | 18% | 0% |
1. Define management objectives for the fishery by 2024
2. By 2025, the fishery should be managed under a comprehensive and adaptive harvest strategy
3. Generate additional information to confirm the nature of the hake fishery as an environmentally-friendly fishery by 2025
4. Improve local market conditions for hake by 2025
5. Creating a case for sustainability within the industrial trawling fisheries in the upper Gulf of California by 2025