Until August 31, the ban on southern hake is in full force in Chile

Published 2021년 8월 3일

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The article highlights the initiation of the annual southern hake fishing ban, which extends from August 1 to 31, aimed at combating overexploitation of the species and ensuring its future sustainability. This ban, which encompasses a significant area from the Los Lagos Region to Magallanes, prohibits the capture, commercialization, processing, and transportation of the hake during the reproduction period. This measure not only seeks to preserve the hake population but also safeguards the fishing activity that supports over 3,500 fishermen. Additionally, the article emphasizes the nutritional and commercial importance of southern hake and addresses the challenges of illegal fishing and overexploitation, encouraging consumers to report illegal sales to maintain food safety and support the sustainable management of fishing resources.

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(SERNAPESCA COMMUNICATION) .- On Sunday, August 1 at 00:00, the closure of the southern hake began, one of the most desired fishing resources in the southern macrozone and that, according to the report of the Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture , is currently in a state of overexploitation. For this reason and to protect the species, each year a biological ban is decreed between August 1 and 31. The biological ban prohibits the extraction of this resource in the entire area that goes from the Los Lagos Region to Magallanes, as well as prohibits the commercialization, processing, storage, transport of the fresh resource throughout the national territory and of the resource extracted during the closed. This aims to protect the species during the peak of its reproduction period, as well as to protect the fishing activity on which more than 3,500 fishermen depend -300 of them women- who are authorized to extract southern or southern hake, from agreement with the Artisanal ...

Source: Subpesca