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Horse mackerel good catches would exhaust annual quotas

CHILE | Thursday, May 17, 2012
In the first two months of this year over 60 per cent of the horse mackerel (Trachurus murphyi) quota set for this year for the fishing industry was caught and it is estimated that by late May the annual quota of 232,000 tonnes might be exhausted.

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