Graph: What’s happened to hake?

Catches have decreased over the past 20 years, yet Namibian hake stocks remain just 13 percent of what they were in 1964. Source: An assessment and management of Namibian hake (Merluccius capensis and M. paradoxus) by using an age-structured production model/ Carola H. Kirchner *Catch represents the amount of fish taken from Namibian waters by … Continued

By Ajani Winston

March 21, 2012

Catches have decreased over the past 20 years, yet Namibian hake stocks remain just 13 percent of what they were in 1964.

Source: An assessment and management of Namibian hake (Merluccius capensis and M. paradoxus) by using an age-structured production model/ Carola H. Kirchner

*Catch represents the amount of fish taken from Namibian waters by industrialized fishing. Depletion of biomass is a measure marked at 100 percent in 1964, showing the relative proportion since.