Completed Consultations & Final Decisions

This section has background information on issues for which consultation has now been completed. If you cannot find what you are looking for here, please contact your local MFish office.


Consultations from 2008
Papers on issues including:

• Review of Sustainability Measures for Rock Lobster 7 and 8
• Sustainability Measures for southern blue whiting
• Deemed Values
• Marine Protected Areas
• Seabird mitigation measures
• Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins
• QMS Introductions October 2008
• New Management Regime for Foreign Charter Vessels
• Review of Regulatory and Other Management Controls for 1 October 2008

Consultations from 2007
Papers on issues including:

• Review of Regulatory and Other Management Controls for 1 April 2008
• Sustainability Round October 2007
• Regulatory Round October 2007
• Coromandel Scallops
• White Warehou
• Blue Cod Fishery closures
• Eastern Sea Farms
• Albacore Tuna
• Squid Fishery around Auckland Islands

Consultations from 2006
Papers on issues including:

• Deemed Values
• Hector's Dolphins
• Northland Scallop Fishery
• Recreational Regulations
• Seabird Bycatch
• Sea Lions

Consultations from 2005
Papers on issues including:

• QMS introductions
• Sea Lions
• Amateur Fishing Regulations
• Maui's Dolphins
• Southern Blue Whiting

Consultations from 2004
Papers on issues including:

• Sea Lions
• Southern Blue Whiting
• Scampi
• North Island Shortfin and Longfin Eels
• Green-Lipped Mussels

Consultations from 2003
Initial Position Paper and Final Advice Paper on the proposed management regime and operational plan to address New Zealand sea lion interactions in the southern squid trawl fishery.