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Fisheries Plans

Kia ora tätou. Welcome to the New Zealand fisheries plans web pages.

New Zealanders fish for recreation, custom, tradition, and for a living, and many businesses and communities rely on fish and the marine environment. So it’s important that our fisheries are managed so all New Zealanders benefit.

That’s why the Ministry of Fisheries is keen to work with tangata whenua and all fisheries stakeholders to develop fisheries plans. Fisheries plans will describe how New Zealanders can get best value from their fisheries, within environmental limits, or standards, set by the Government. Fisheries plans will allow us to:

Specify government-set STANDARDS within which fisheries should be managed
Identify the VALUE different stakeholders obtain from the fishery
Set OBJECTIVES for a fishery to get best value
Design the MANAGEMENT of the fishery to achieve the objectives
Make fisheries management more TRANSPARENT

Fisheries plans will allow us to improve the way we prioritise use of Ministry resources and provide a clearer basis for monitoring performance of each fishery.

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Coming Up This Month


29/07/08	Paua (PAU 5A)	Meeting 8: Continue refining goals and objectives

30/07/08	Rock Lobster (CRA 3)	Working Group Meeting - The CRA3 Plan

31/07/08	West Coast North Island finfish (FMA 8, 9)	Meeting 6: Review compliance information

1/08/08	Highly Migratory Species	Meeting 6: refining objectives and assessing current management

4/08/08	Northland Scallops	Meeting 7: Continue Refining Objectives

Latest News

Good progress refining objectives in Northland Scallop plan
July 11, 2008
At its meeting on 19 June, the Northland Scallop Fishery Plan Advisory Group began developing the ideas and issues raised in the previous meeting’s brainstorming session into objectives to guide the management of the fishery. The Group made good progress rewording and sorting the ideas from the brainstorm into relevant categories. MFish group members have been tasked with continuing to develop the ideas into specific objectives, which will be further developed by the Group at the next meeting.

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Objective setting for North-west Finfish Plan
July 11, 2008
The North-West Finfish Fisheries Plan Advisory Group held its fifth meeting in Auckland on 24 June. Environmental representatives presented information about ecosystems and non-extractive users in the region, and MFish staff presented information about customary management tools and commercial reporting forms. The Group made a start on determining objectives for the fishery by brainstorming ideas of what different sectors want for the fishery. The Group discussed these ideas and assigned them to broader categories. At the next meeting on 31 July, the Group will continue developing these ideas into goals and objectives.

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FOURTH MEETING OF THE NORTH WEST FINFISH PLAN
June 5, 2008 - Tracey Smith
At the fourth meeting of the North West Finfish Plan held on Thursday 29 May the advisory group continued its review of the contents of the information brief and discussed how best to incorporate customary information from different regions along the west coast. During the meeting new measures to protect Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins were announced and the group discussed the potential impacts of the decision. At the next meeting, the group will begin setting objectives for the future management of the west coast fisheries. This meeting will be held in Auckland on Tuesday 24 June.
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Northland Scallop Advisory Group Begin Objective Setting
May 23, 2008 - Murray Bruges
The Northland Scallop Advisory Group has begun the process of setting objectives for the future management of the fishery. At its fifth meeting on the 15th of May, the group began with a brainstorming session and then sorted the many different ideas this produced into thirteen categories. The group also heard Jonathan Peacey (MFish’s National Manager Fisheries Operations) talk on the broader context for fisheries planning in New Zealand and Dave Olsen (a major processor of scallops in Northland) talk about the importance of Northland Scallop fishery from an economic perspective. At the next meeting on the 19th of June, the group will refine the objectives raised in the brainstorming session and will hear some members of the group discuss the importance of scallops to customary fishers in Northland.
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CRA 3 MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES CONFIRMED
May 8, 2008
The CRA 3 Multi-stakeholder Fishing Forum has recently agreed to 14 management strategies for the Gisborne red rock lobster fishery. The proposed management strategies are designed to build a sustainable CRA 3 fishery, ensure a healthy CRA 3 fisheries environment, and provide a fishery for all sectors.
The CRA3 Forum has incorporated the agreed strategies into a second draft CRA 3 Fisheries Management Plan which has just been reviewed by the National Rock Lobster Management Group and science advisors.
Follow the link below to view the second draft of the CRA 3 Plan.
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