The summaries presented in this document cover the rock lobster legal fishing years (1 April–31 March) for April 1979 to March 2023.

 

There are nine Quota Management Areas (QMAs) that cover all inshore waters of the North Island, the South Island, and the Chatham Islands. There are 43 smaller statistical areas that lie within these nine QMAs. The summaries are ordered by QMA, with each QMA identified by a three-letter code and a number. The rock lobster code is CRA, so the nine QMAs are labelled CRA 1 to CRA 9. 

 

The first three tables for each CRA QMA summarise, by statistical area and fishing year, (1) number of vessels, (2) catch, and (3) effort. The last category is defined as the total number of rock lobster pots lifted within each fishing year and statistical area. The fourth table summarises catch by month and fishing year for the entire QMA, and a fifth table gives the monthly catch by statistical area for just the final fishing year, which is 2022–23 in this document. 

 

The sixth table for each QMA summarises catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) by statistical area and fishing year. CPUE in this table is defined as the catch (in kilograms) from the second table divided by the number of potlifts in the third table. There is a seventh table providing CPUE that has gone through a mathematical procedure called “standardisation” which attempts to factor out aspects of the CPUE which might change over time. The standardisation procedure has been suspended beginning with 2019–20 because there are comparability issues associated with the changeover from paper forms to electronic reporting.

Document date
Monday, 4 March 2024

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V 1.3

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FAR: 2024/10;
AUTHOR: Starr, P.J.;
ISSN: 1179-5352;
ISBN: 978-1-991120-94-6;

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