Advice and Scenarios Database



Hake (Merluccius merluccius) in divisions 8.c and 9.a, Southern stock (Cantabrian Sea and Atlantic Iberian waters)
StockCode
hke.27.8c9a
Assessment Year
2024
Stock Category
1
Purpose
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
19041
Link to Advice Sheet
https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.25019306.v1






Catch scenarios


Basis
Total catch
Projected landings*
Projected discards**
Fages 1–7 total
Fages 1–7 projected landings
Fages 1-7 projected discards
SSB
% SSB change***
% TAC change^
% advice change^^
2025 2025 2025 2025 2025 2025 2026 2026 2025 2025
(t) (t) (t) (ratio) (ratio) (ratio) (t) (%) (%) (%)
ICES Basis Advice
EU MAP: Fmsy^^^ 15105 14017 1088 0.22 0.2 0.016 31680 18 -13 17
F = MAP FMSY lower 10659 9904 755 0.151 0.14 0.011 34126 27 -39 17
F = MAP FMSY upper 20404 18903 1501 0.31 0.29 0.023 28798 7 17 17
Other scenarios
F = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40084 49 -100 -100
F = Flim 38558 35473 3085 0.69 0.64 0.056 19249 -29 121 198
F = Fpa 32839 30286 2553 0.56 0.52 0.043 22197 -18 88 154
SSB (2026) = Blim 66526 60037 6489 1.83 1.65 0.178 6011 -78 281 415
SSB (2026) = Bpa 62947 57014 5933 1.6 1.45 0.151 7556 -72 261 387
SSB (2026) = MSY Btrigger 62947 57014 5933 1.6 1.45 0.151 7556 -72 261 387
SSB (2026) = SSB(2025) 23858 22077 1781 0.37 0.35 0.028 26940 0 37 85
F = F2024 13903 12906 997 0.2 0.188 0.014 32338 20 -20 8
Catch advice (2025)=TAC 2024 17445 16177 1268 0.26 0.24 0.019 30402 13 0 35




Symbol Footnotes
* Marketable landings, assuming recent discard rate.
** Including BMS landings assuming recent discard rate.
*** SSB 2026 relative to SSB 2025 (26 940 tonnes).
^ Total catch in 2025 relative to 2024 TAC (17 445 tonnes).
^^ Advice values for 2025 relative to the corresponding 2024 values (FMSY 12 919 tonnes, FMSY lower 9 119 tonnes, FMSY upper 17 445 tonnes). All other scenarios are relative to the 2024 value FMSY 12 919 tonnes.
^^^ The EU multiannual plan (MAP; EU, 2019).