OpenSeas continues to attract more and more users each month as the single source of reliable information on New Zealand’s key commercial fish species.
Details needed on cameras on vessels announcement
In response to Minister David Parker’s announcement on 25 May about the national roll-out of cameras on commercial inshore fishing vessels, Seafood New Zealand (SNZ) Chief Executive Jeremy Helson says the most important questions still remain unanswered.
Seafood Industry Remains Concerned on Chatham Rise
Seafood sector welcomes artificial intelligence
Opinion piece: Artificial Intelligence can already do some big things, some revolutionary, some potentially frightening. There’s the risk of disruption from fake political ads, nervousness about what it means for our jobs and philosophical questions about what constitutes life.
Scientists differ over carbon and trawling
Two years after being received, a paper questioning claims that trawling generates more carbon than air travel has finally been published in the same scientific journal. The original paper, by Sala et al, created global headlines, largely generated by the accompanying media release. The paper was first published in Nature and the claim that trawling released more carbon than air travel rapidly became “fact”.
Jeremy Helson: In defence of New Zealand fisheries
New Zealand has a robust and strictly enforced Quota Management System (QMS) which was designed to ensure our fisheries are sustainable and the wider aquatic environment protected. The QMS is a global success story. Some New Zealand fisheries were once overfished and most have recovered to levels where they can be sustainably used. Orange roughy is a great example of this and is now independently certified as sustainable and healthy by the Marine Stewardship Council.
The Squid Fishery and New Zealand Sea Lions
Report on sea-trials of Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD) to deter seabirds from risk of trawl net capture
Road Show rolls to a close, for this year…
OpenSeas playbook launched
MPI (2010) Initial Position Paper & Submissions – Review of Sustainability Measures (01 Dec 2010) Vol2 BSK (PDF)
MPI (2010) Initial Position Paper & Submissions – Review of Sustainability Measures (01 Dec 2010) Vol2 BSK (PDF)
MPI (2010) Initial Position Paper & Submissions – Review of Sustainability Measures (01 Dec 2010) Vol2 BSK (PDF)
DWG Submission on Seamounts and Bottom Trawling to Environment Select Committee 300821 WEB (PDF)
Dudley (2008) IUCN Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories PAG-021 (PDF)
Hilborn et al 2020 PNAS Effective fisheries management instrumental in improving fish stock status (PDF)
Bagley, N.W.; O’Driscoll, R.L.; Oeffner, J. (2014). Trawl survey of hoki and middle-depth species in the Southland and Sub-Antarctic areas, November–December 2012 (TAN1215) (New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report 2014/12) (PDF)
Bagley, N.W.; O’Driscoll, R.L.; Oeffner, J. (2014). Trawl survey of hoki and middle-depth species in the Southland and Sub-Antarctic areas, November–December 2012 (TAN1215) (New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report 2014/12) (PDF)
Bagley et al. (2014) Trawl survey of hoki and middle-depth species in the Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas (Nov-Dec 2012). New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report 12. 73p (PDF)
Thompson et al (2013) Common Dolphin Interactions In New Zealand Commercial Trawl Fisheries (PDF)
MPI (2011) Draft Seabirds Policy for addressing fishing related mortality of Seabirds. (PDF)
Hiddink et al (2023) Quantifying the carbon benefits of ending bottom trawling (PDF)
Hiddink et al (2023) Quantifying the carbon benefits of ending bottom trawling (response to Sala et al. Nature 592. 397-402)
Two years after being received, a paper questioning claims that trawling generates more carbon than air travel has finally been published in the same scientific journal.
Auster P et al (2011) Definition and detection of vulnerable marine ecosystems on the high seas (problems with the move-on rule) – ICES JMS 68.2 (PDF)
Anderson et al (2019) Review of New Zealands key biogenic habitats – NIWA Client report to MoE (PDF)
Alder J and D Pauly (2008) A comparative assessment of biodiversity fisheries and aquaculture in 53 countries EEZs (PDF)
MFAT and DOC Conservation (2013) New Zealand’s Fifth National Report to the UN CBD 2009-14 (PDF)
Thompson, F.N. et al. (2015). Reported New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri) captures in commercial trawl fisheries, 1991–92 to 2012–13(New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report 145) (PDF)
NIWA (2014c). Salvin’s albatrosses at the Bounty Islands: at-sea distribution. Prepared for DOC (PDF)
MPI (2015b). Annual Review Report for Deepwater Fisheries for 2013/14 (MPI Technical Paper No: 2015/07) (PDF)
DWG (2015). Memo to Vessel Operators and Skippers: Sea Lion Risk Management Actions SBW Campbell 2015-16. DWG: Auckland (PDF)
DWG (2015a). SBW Fishery Protected Species Interactions & Mitigation 2015-16 (Briefing Paper). DWG: Auckland (PDF)
DWG (2014). Increase in rates of mollymawk captures in deepwater trawl fisheries – more consistent management of risk required. (PDF)
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Rowden et al. (2013) Developing predictive models for the distribution of vulnerable marine ecosystems in the South Pacific Ocean region. AEBR 120 (PDF)
Thompson et al. (2013) Marine mammal bycatch in New Zealand Trawl Fisheries (1995-96 to 2010-11) AEBR 105 (PDF)
Thompson et al (2013) Common Dolphin Interactions In New Zealand Commercial Trawl Fisheries (PDF)
MPI (2011) Draft Seabirds Policy for addressing fishing related mortality of Seabirds. (PDF)
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