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Kermadec (FMA10)
North West (FMA 9)
Central (FMA 8)
North East Coast North Island (FMA 1)
Central (East) (FMA2)
Challenger (FMA 7)
Chatham Islands (FMA 4)
South-East Coast (FMA 3)
Southland/Fiordland (FMA 5)
Sub-Antarctic (FMA 6)
Fishery:
Albacore tuna
Challenger Finfish
Challenger Scallops and Oysters
Challenger Shellfish
Chatham Islands (FMA 4)
Coromandel Scallops
Deepwater crabs
East Coast North Island Finfish
East Coast North Island Shellfish
Eels
Foveaux Strait Dredge Oysters
Freshwater (general)
Hake
Hoki (including key bycatch stocks)
Jack mackerel
Kermadec
Large pelagic species
Ling
North East Finfish
North East Shellfish
North West Shellfish (FMA 9)
Northland Scallops
Orange roughy
Oreo
Paua (PAU 5A)
Red Rock Lobster (all stocks)
Red Rock Lobster (CRA 3)
Scampi
Seaweed
Skipjack tuna
Southern Blue Whiting
Southern Finfish
Southern reef fish (FMA 3,5)
Southern Shellfish
Squid
West Coast North Island Finfish
Species:
Agar weed
Albacore tuna
Alfonsino
Alfonsino & Long-finned beryx
Anchovy
Antarctic toothfish
Antipodean albatross
Arrow squid
Banded stargazer
Barracouta
Bass
Bigeye tuna
Black flounder
Black oreo
Black Paua & Yellowfoot Paua
Blackfoot paua
Bladder kelp
Blue cod
Blue mackerel
Blue maomao
Blue marlin
Blue moki
Blue shark
Bluenose
Bottlenose dolphin
Brill
Brodie's king crab
Brown bullhead catfish
Bull kelp
Buller's albatross
Buller's and Pacific albatross
Buller's shearwater
Butterfish
Campbell albatross
Cardinal fish
Chatham Island albatross
Cockle
Common dolphin
Common smelt
Common warehou
Convict groper
Crab (Unspecified)
Deepwater clam
Dusky dolphin
Ecklonia
Eels, Marine (Unspecified)
Elephant fish
Flatfish
Flesh-footed shearwater
Freshwater eels
Frilled venus shell
Frostfish
Galaxiid (adult)
Garfish
Gemfish
Gemfish
Ghost shark
Giant spider crab
Giant stargazer
Giant Stargazer
Gibson's albatross
Gigartina
Goldfish
Gracilaria weed
Grass carp
Great-winged (Grey-faced) petrel
Greenback flounder
Green-lipped mussel
Green-lipped mussel
Green-lipped mussel (spat)
Grey mullet
Grey petrel
Grey-headed albatross
Gurnard
Hake
Hapuku
Hapuku & Bass
Hector's dolphin
Hoki
Horse mussel
Jack mackerel
Jack-knife prawn
John dory
Kahawai
Kahawai
Kina
King crab
King tarakihi
Kingfish
Knobbed whelk
Koi carp
Koura
Large trough shell
Leatherjacket
Lemon sole
Lessonia
Light-mantled sooty albatross
Ling
Long finned gemfish
Longfinned beryx
Long-finned freshwater eel
Lookdown dory
Mako shark
Masked booby
Maui's dolphin
Moonfish
Murphy's mackerel
Murray's king crab
New Zealand fur seal
New Zealand sea lion
Northern giant petrel
Northern kahawai
Northern royal albatross
Northern spiny dogfish
NZ Northern arrow squid
NZ sole
NZ Southern arrow squid
Octopus
Orange roughy
Orca
Oreo
Oysters, dredge (except Foveaux Strait)
Oysters, dredge (Foveaux Strait)
Pacific bluefin tuna
Pacific oyster
Packhorse rock lobster
Paddle crab
Pale ghost shark
Parore
Patagonian toothfish
Pilchard
Pipi
Porae
Porbeagle shark
Porphyra
Prawn killer
Queen scallop
Quinnat salmon
Ray's bream
Red cod
Red crab
Red snapper
Redbait
Rexea prometheoides
Ribaldo
Rig
Ringed dosinia
Rough skate
Rubyfish
Salvin's albatross
Sand flounder
Scallop
Scampi
School shark
Sea cucumber
Sea lettuce
Sea perch
Short-finned freshwater eel
Silky dosinia
Silver warehou
Skipjack tuna
Slender sprat
Smooth oreo
Smooth skate
Snapper
Sockeye salmon
Sooty shearwater
Southern blue whiting
Southern bluefin tuna
Southern royal albatross
Southern tuatua
Spiky oreo
Spiny dogfish
Spiny red rock lobster
Sprats
Stout sprat
Striped marlin
Swordfish
Tarakihi
Tarakihi
Trachurus declivis
Trachurus novaezelandiae
Trevally
Triangle shell
Trough shell
Trumpeter
Tuatua
Turbot
Unidentifiable
Warty oreo
Westland petrel
White warehou
Whitebait
White-capped albatross
White-chinned petrel
Yellowbelly flounder
Yellow-eyed mullet
Yellow-eyed penguin
Yellowfin tuna
Yellowfoot paua
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Freshwater eels (ANG)
Maori name
Multiple names
Scientific name
Anguilla dieffenbachii, A. australis, A. reinhardtii
Catch
Sustainability
Environmental impacts
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Environmental impacts
Habitat
Sedimentation and smothering. Muds and silts washed down into the nearshore area
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Habitat
Eutrophication. High nutrient levels can cause 'blooms' of phytoplankton and algae.
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