Review of Sustainability Measures and Other Management Controls for the April 2007 Fishing Year

Initial Position Paper

3 July 2006

Table of Contents

• CRA 8 Rock Lobster Fishery – Proposal to Allow the Sale of Southland Concession Area Rock Lobster in New Zealand
• Maximum size limit for freshwater eels in the north island and chatham islands
• appendix 1: relationship between Fecundity and total weight and total length for migrant shortfin and longfin eels (from Todd 1981)
• appendix 2: Relative Spawning Biomass And Maximum weights for longfin ee
• appendix 3: Statutory considerations
• Paua (PAU) 6 Fishery – Review of the Eighth Schedule Minimum annual holdings of Annual Catch Entitlement
• removal of south island freshwater eel stocks from the second schedule
• Review of the Catch Balancing (Deemed Value) Guidelines
• Appendix 1: Summary of Proposed Guidelines for Setting Deemed Values 2006
• Appendix 2: Summary of Existing Deemed Value Guidelines 2001
• Appendix 3: Fish stock categories used in the existing Catch balancing (deemed value) guidelines
• Appendix 4: Process to review and recommend adjustments to deemed value rates.
• Appendix 5: Process used by MFish to groom ACE transaction data to be used to set deemed values.
• Appendix 6: Stocks for which overfishing thresholds and tolerance levels have been set
• Schedule 5 Species (45% Aggregation)
• Appendix 1: Candidate Species
• Appendix 2: Commerce Commission
• Schedule 6 NEW Species – Otago COCKLES (COC 3) AND SURF CLAMS
• Appendix ONE