SBW Trawl Fishery Surveillance Audit 2019
Southern Blue Whiting Trawl Fishery Surveillance Audit 2019
The SBW 6B and SBW 6I trawl fisheries have been MSC certified since 2012 and passed their annual audit in 2019.
DWG undertakes to make all non-confidential information that is provided to the Conformance Assessment Body publicly available on this webpage to ensure all documents are easily accessible by all participants.
A summary of the key information from these references can be found in the Situation Report.
Principle 1
"A fishery must be conducted in a manner that does not lead to over-fishing or depletion of the exploited populations and, for those populations that are depleted, the fishery must be conducted in a manner that demonstrably leads to their recovery."
The intent of this principle is to ensure that the productive capacities of the resources are maintained at high levels and are not sacrificed in favour of short term interests.
Doonan, I.J. (2017). Evaluation of a simple harvest control rule for the Bounty southern blue whiting management area (SBW6B). New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report 2017/52. 14 p.
Doonan, I J (2018). Objective 2: To apply the agreed harvest control rule to SBW6B, 2018. Final Research Report, unpublished manuscript held by FNZ. 2 p.
FNZ (2019) Fisheries Assessment Plenary May 2019. Stock Assessments and Stock Status Vol. 3: Pipi to Yellow-eyed Mullet. Southern blue whiting pp.1401-1427.
MPI (2018). Review of Sustainability Measures for Bounty Platform Southern Blue Whiting (SBW 6B) for 2018/19. Proposal to Alter Total Allowable Catch, Allowances, and Total Allowable Commercial Catch. MPI Discussion Paper No: 2018/04.
O’Driscoll, R.L. (2018). Acoustic biomass estimates of southern blue whiting on the Bounty Plateau in 2017. New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report 2018/11. 28 p.
O’Driscoll, R.L., Large, K. & Marriott , P.(2018). Acoustic estimates of southern blue whiting from the Campbell Island Rise, August–September 2016 (TAN1610). New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report 2018/56. 60 p.
Roberts, J. and Hanchet, S.M. (2019). Southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis) stock assessment for the Campbell Island Rise for 2017. New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report 2019/44. 21 p.
Principle 2
"Fishing operations should allow for the maintenance of the structure, productivity, function and diversity of the ecosystem (including habitat and associated dependent and ecologically related species) on which the fishery depends."
The intent of this principle is to encourage management of fisheries from an ecosystem perspective under a system designed to restrain the impacts of the fishery on the ecosystem.
Baird, S.J.; Wood, B.A. (2018). Extent of bottom contact by New Zealand commercial trawl fishing for deepwater Tier 1 and Tier 2 target fish stocks, 1989–90 to 2015–16.
Baker, C.S.; Chilvers, B.L.; Childerhouse, S.; Constantine, R.; Currey, R.; Mattlin, R.; van Helden, A.; Hitchmough, R.; Rolfe, J. (2016) Conservation status of New Zealand marine mammals, 2013. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 14. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 18 p.
Baker, B., Jensz, K. (2019). 2018 aerial survey of Salvin's albatross at the Bounty Islands. Final report to the Conservation Services Programme, Department of Conservation. Latitude 42, Australia. 11 p.
Baker, C.S., Boren, L., Childerhouse, S., Constantine, R., van Helden, A., Lundquist, D., Rayment W., Rolfe, J.R. (2019). Conservation status of New Zealand marine mammals, 2019. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 29. 18 p.
Bell, E.A. 2013 [updated 2018]. Grey petrel. In Miskelly, C.M. (ed.) New Zealand Birds Online.
DOC (2009). Mitigating incidental captures of fur seals in trawl fisheries. Project MIT2006/09.
DOC (2016). New Zealand fur seal population estimation.
DOC (2017). New Zealand sea lion/rāpoka Threat Management Plan 2017 – 2022. 17 p.
DOC (2017a). Conservation Services Programme Annual Plan 2017/18. DOC: Wellington
DOC (2019). Bounty Islands.
Dragonfly (2019). Protected species bycatch 2002-03 to 2017-18.
DWG (2018). Deepwater Trawl Vessel Management Plan (VMP): Vessel Specific Procedures for Mitigating Seabird and Mammal Captures for Trawlers. Version 6.0. 1 p.
DWG (2019). Operational Plan to Manage the Incidental Capture of New Zealand Sea Lions in the Southern Blue Whiting Fishery, Campbell Island (SBW 6I). 8 p.
DWG (2019a). Notice for Vessels and Skippers: Sea Lion Risk Management Actions SBW 6I – Campbell Island (2019). Deepwater Group Ltd. 1 p.
DWG (2019b). Environmental Liaison Officer’s report – Environmental Training and Liaison for Deepwater Fishing Crew: 2017-18 Report. 5 p.
DWG (2019c). Deepwater Trawl Marine Mammals Operational Procedures. Version 9.0. 23 p.
DWG (2019d). Deepwater Trawl Sharks Operational Procedures. Version 2.0. 19 p.
Finucci, B., Edwards, C.T.T., Anderson, O.F. & Ballara, S.L. (2019). Fish and invertebrate bycatch in New Zealand deepwater fisheries from 1990-91 until 2016-17. New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report No. 210. 77 p.
FNZ (2018). Annual Operational Plan for Deepwater Fisheries 2018/19. Fisheries New Zealand Technical Paper No: 2018/07. 42 p.
FNZ (2019) Fisheries Assessment Plenary May 2019. Stock Assessments and Stock Status Vol. 3: Pipi to Yellow-eyed Mullet. Southern blue whiting pp.1401-1427.
FNZ (2019a). Operational Plan to Manage the Incidental Capture of New Zealand Sea Lions in the Southern Blue Whiting Fishery, Campbell Island (SBW 6I). 8 p.
FNZ (2019b). Performance of the 2018 Southern Blue Whiting Fishery and Compliance with the SBW6I Operational Plan. Report prepared by Deep Water Management team, Fisheries New Zealand, October 2019. 2 p.
Francis, M. (2017). Review of commercial fishery interactions and population information for New Zealand basking shark. Prepared for Department of Conservation. 44 p.
Helson, J., Leslie, S., Clement, G., Wells, R. and Wood, R. (2010). Private rights, public benefits: Industry-driven seabed protection. Marine Policy 34, 557–566.
Richard, Y., Abraham, E. R., & Berkenbusch, K. (2017). Assessment of the risk of commercial fisheries to New Zealand seabirds, 2006–07 to 2014–15. New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report No. 191. 133 p.
Roberts, J. & Doonan, I. (2016). Quantitative Risk Assessment of Threats to New Zealand Sea Lions. New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report No. 166. 111 p.
Sagar, P., Charteris, M., Parker, G., Rexer-Huber, K. & Thompson, D. (2018). Salvin's albatross: Bounty Islands population project. Final report to the Conservation Services Programme, Department of Conservation, prepared by NIWA. 18 p.
Principle 3
"The fishery is subject to an effective management system that respects local, national and international laws and standards and incorporates institutional and operational frameworks that require use of the resource to be responsible and sustainable."
The intent of this principle is to ensure that there is an institutional and operational framework for implementing Principles 1 and 2, appropriate to the size and scale of the fishery.
Surveillance Report
The final surveillance report is available here.
