Argentina: With reduced supply, whole hake for the domestic market rises

One week from Good Friday, one of the peaks in fish consumption on the calendar, and with a kilo of hake filet in fishmongers that ranges between 700 and 900 pesos per kilo, depending on the fishmonger and the Mar del Plata area, From some refrigerators where the raw material is reprocessed, they anticipated that the price could increase due to the lack of whole fish on the dock. From the industrial sector they revealed that in recent weeks hake is a scarce commodity in the docks of Mar del Plata due to the problem that sailors and officers have had when renewing their certificates and qualifications. This inconvenience that delayed the departure of some ships due to not being able to complete the shipping roles with authorized personnel exacerbated the lack of supply of fresh fish that was already withdrawn by ships out of activity. In this table, the Floridablanca vessel is distinguished, which passed through TPA and has not fished since last year, as well as the Santa Bárbara. ...