Hake to Brazil: demand improves after strong retraction

With regular access to whole hake and better prices at the dock due to an increase in supply after the return of the fresh fleet from the shrimp season in national waters, meat exporters increased their production level to meet the demand of Brazilian customers . The fish that reached around 80 pesos per kilo last winter with a restricted offer, now trades at between 39 and 40 pesos plus VAT and allows them to improve the economic equation that always depends, also, on the type of employment relationship that is maintained with the workers in charge of the cut. At this time, interest in hake begins to awaken from Brazil with a view to increasing the stock by the end of the year and mainly during Easter 2021. “In November the weak demand that we had until now begins to reverse and there is also a slight improvement in the price, ”says Ciro D´Antonio from Frigorífico del Sud Este. In the establishment they make IQF in bags of different weight, between half and a kilogram. It is not ...