There are nine red rock lobster Quota Management Areas (QMAs) that cover all inshore waters of the North Island, the South Island and the Chatham Islands. There are 43 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 red 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 2023–24 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 annual catch (in kilograms) from the second table divided by the number of potlifts in the third table.
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