At arrival all descriptors were optimumin batch A (control batch) (Table 5). After 7 days of storage, sensory qualification of inoculated young hake batches revealed that batches B, C, and D were better than batch A (control batch) for the descriptors of general appearance, skin (slime), bone–meat adherence, meat texture and meat odor; similar to batch A (control batch) for gills odor, eye and meat color; and worse than batch A (control batch) for gills color and peritoneum adherence descriptors.