Hoki
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Hoki ( Macruronus novaezelandiae ) |
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The Hoki , "New Zealand Hoki", "New Zealand Hoki", "Blue Hake" or "New Zealand Long-tailed Hake" (scientifically: Macruronus novaezelandiae , English: "blue grenadier" or "blue hake") is a Pacific fish that is related to the Atlantic hake (merluccius).
Young fish live in higher areas (200–600 m), older fish up to a depth of 1500 m near the bottom. Hokis live in schools and feed on small fish, such as luminous sardines, but also on crabs and squids.
The Hoki is caught all year round at depths of 400 to 1000 meters with swimming and bottom trawls as food fish . The main fishing areas are the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand , the Cook Strait and the Chatham Rise east of New Zealand.
The white meat of deep sea fish is often used raw for sushi . In Germany it is mostly sold in the form of frozen fillets.
According to Greenpeace , the consumption should be avoided, as the review states are bad or unclear, he was growing long-lived and slow, late reaching sexual maturity and destructive bottom trawling or pelagic trawl fishery with bycatch will operated on Hoki-young animals and endangered seabirds, sharks and rays.
The total catch (TAC level) for 2001 was 200,000 tons, for 2008/09 90,000 (metric) tons according to the MSC .
- Size : 60 to 130 cm
- Weight :> 1.5 kg
- Age :> 20 years
Web links
- Hoki on Fishbase.org (English)