The Cornish Fish Producers Organisation (CFPO), representing many Cornish fishermen, has gained Objective 1 fisheries funding for a hake fishing trial.

With an EU imposed hake recovery plan in the offing, the CFPO has undertaken a study to evaluate the commercial impact of changing the size of it’s beam trawl nets.

The trial looked at whether the changes in fishing gear would ensure that less juvenile hake were caught and whether other marketable species were lost.