Appendix

Measurement conventions for species length as recorded in the hmetal database. Species codes are enclosed in parenthesis "( )".



Fork length

Barracouta (BAR), bluenose (BNS), brown trout (BTR), alfonsino (BYX), blue mackerel (EMA), ribaldo (RIB), anchovy (ANC), pilchard (PIL), jack mackerel (JMA), kahawai (KAH), kingfish (KIN), orange perch (OPE), parore (PAR), rainbow trout (RTR), quinnat salmon (SAM), southern blue whiting (SBW), gemfish (SKI), porae (POR), skipjack (SKJ), snapper (SNA), silverside (SSI), southern bluefin tuna (STN), silver warehou (SWA), tarakihi (TAR), trevally (TRE), common warehou (WAR), white warehou (WWA), black cardinalfish (EPT)

Total length

Basss/grouper (BAS), blue cod (BCO), brill (BRI), New Zealand sole (ESO), sand flounder (SFL), black flounder (BFL), black oreo (BOE), conger eel (CON), gurnard (GUR), hake (HAK), hapuku (HAP), hoki (HOK), javelin fish (JAV), john dory (JDO), lookdown dory (LDO), leatherjacket (LEA), long-finned eel (LFE), ling (LIN), red cod (RCO), short-finned eel (SFE), sea perch (SPE), smooth oreo (SSO), stargazer (STA), seal shark (BSH), Owston's spiny dogfish (CYO), elephant fish (ELE), Lucifer dogfish (ETL), ghost shark (GSH), rig (SPO), pale ghost shark (GSP), mako shark (MAK), northern spiny dogfish (NSD), school shark (SCH), shovelnose spiny dogfish (SND), spiny dogfish (SPD), witch (WIT)

Standard length

Orange roughy (ORH)

Rear of eye to tail fork

Striped marlin (STM)

Wing width

Skate (SKA, RSK)

Mantle length

Arrow squid (ASQ), giant squid (GSQ)

Carapace length

Rock lobster (CRA)

Carapace width

Paddle crab (PAD)

Longest dimension of shell

Bluff oyster (OYS), pacific oyster (POY), paua (PAU), blue mussel (MSB), green-lipped mussel (MSG), scallop (SCA)


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Updated : 16 November 2007