This report includes a description of all New Zealand lookdown dory fisheries catches up to the fishing year 2008–09; development of a catch-per-unit-effort model for the main fishery on the East Coast South Island/Chatham Rise; a summary of observer size frequency data; a summary of trawl survey biomass and size frequency data for the Chatham Rise and Sub-Antarctic; and a review of stock structure. It makes recommendations on future data requirements and methods for monitoring the stocks.