There is a one-month lag between the data being processed and the data being published to the MPI website. The data is provisional for three months from the time of its release and is at the national level only.
At least three years of data is available on the MPI website. Further time series of the data are available on Infoshare, a service provided by Statistics New Zealand which allows viewing of the meat slaughter statistics at both the national and the regional levels. http://www.stats.govt.nz/infoshare/. The most recent time series of the data will be available on Infoshare by the 30th of each month.
Questions about the data can be emailed to stats_info@mpi.govt.nz.

The red rock lobster supports the most valuable inshore commercial fishery in New Zealand. This fishery has been managed with catch quotas in nine Quota Management Areas (QMAs), which are usually treated as independent populations or stocks.

To estimate those quotas, a stock assessment is done for each QMA approximately every five years. These stock assessments include a review of the previous stock assessments and data inputs, the addition of new data, data processing, and development of a new stock assessment model.

This document describes the collation and review of inputs for the 2023 stock assessment of CRA 6 (the Chatham Islands).

The trawl footprint describes how much seabed area has been contacted by trawling gear in New Zealand’s territorial sea (TS) and exclusive economic zone (EEZ), but it does not provide a measure of the effect of fishing on seabed communities.

This project used the trawl footprint information, in addition to other sources of information on impacts of contact by trawl gear on seabed fauna, to quantify the potential impacts to seabed communities and habitats.

Fishing gear types were first described and categorised, and footprints for each category of gear were produced. Two published impact assessment methods were applied to the TS and EEZ. The methods had different strengths and weaknesses and the outputs of the two methods were found to be complementary to one another.

The first method applied, the MRSP approach, combines information on gear categories, expert opinion on the vulnerability of seabed fauna to trawl gear, and the bottom contact footprint of trawl fishing. This approach does not consider how the fauna recover over time.

The second method, the relative benthic status (RBS) approach, uses information on the proportion of the seabed area swept by trawls and published information for depletion and recovery rates for seabed fauna considered to be particularly vulnerable to trawling. This method predicts a future state for the seabed fauna assuming no change to fishing effort.

This project provides outputs for both methods that can be used in conjunction with distribution data for seabed fauna to assess impacts of trawling and inform spatial planning processes.

Recognising the shortcomings of the MRSP and RBS approaches, two further approaches were explored and developed using data from the Chatham Rise. One approach aimed to enhance the RBS method by making this more relevant to local seabed fauna by using bycatch data from the Chatham Rise instead of relying on information from international sources. The results were encouraging but indicated that further method development is required.

The second approach expanded a previously applied spatio-temporal modelling approach to assess impacts to fauna thought to be useful indicators of potential trawling effects. It was found that this approach, as with the others, was limited by the available data, and further development is required to improve the utility of this approach in the future.

Snapper are the most important recreational fish species in New Zealand and are often released back to the sea after capture.
Little is known about the survival of fish after they are released.
NIWA conducted a study using volunteer fishers to catch 960 snapper at different depths and with different hook placements.
The captured snapper were kept in holding nets and monitored by NIWA divers over several days.
Fish hooked in the lip had a low chance of dying if caught at shallow depths, but the chance of dying increased as depth increased.
Fish hooked elsewhere on the body had a higher chance of dying, with those hooked deep in the gut having the highest chance of dying.
This study suggests that fishing practices can impact fish survival, but there are ways to potentially reduce post-release mortality.
Understanding how fishing affects fish survival is therefore an important consideration for catch and release fisheries and when setting catch limit regulations.

This New Zealand Food Safety Independent Verification Programme (IVP) report provides a summary of results for microbiological food safety and process hygiene parameter tests in a range of dairy products sampled during the 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 production period.

New Zealand Food Safety Technical Paper No: 2019/01

Report on surveillance of dairy products for chemical residues and contaminants to confirm dairy products meet New Zealand and international standards.

New Zealand attended the 15th session of the CCNASWP

New Zealand attended the 45th session of the CCFFV.

South Island recreational blue cod fisheries are monitored by Fisheries New Zealand using potting surveys to assess the status of the stocks. The results of the Foveaux Strait surveys are important inputs for full quantitative stock assessments conducted for BCO 5 every five years.

This report describes the results of the random-site blue cod (Parapercis colias) potting survey carried out in Foveaux Strait in February 2023—as well as for three previous surveys (2010, 2014, and 2018). Estimates are provided for population abundance, size structure from fish length, and age structure from otoliths (ear bones collected for ageing), as well as population sex ratio, total mortality, and fishing mortality.

The overall weighted mean length of blue cod in 2023 was 32.0 cm for males and 28.5 cm for females, and mean age was 5.9 years (1–11 years) for males and 6.2 years for females (1–16 years). There were no clear age class modes in 2023 and little evidence of spawning activity during the survey.

The scaled length frequency distributions and mean length of all blue cod were similar for all four surveys, although, in 2023, the proportion of small males was less than in previous years.

Survey abundance (total blue cod mean catch rate) from the four surveys significantly increased between 2010 and 2014, with no change in 2018, followed by a significant decline of 57% in 2023.

The proportion of pots with no catch was similar for the first three surveys (25 to 32%), but in 2023 this increased to 49%. There were no trends in sex ratio over the time series which was around 50% male.

The age structure was similar among the four surveys with most fish between 4 and 8 years of age and relatively few fish over 10 years, particularly males. The fishing pressure is concentrated on just a few older cohorts, some of which are poorly represented.

Relative to the target reference fishing mortality of F=0.15 for blue cod, the estimated mortality in 2023 was nearly seven times higher, indicating that overfishing is occurring. Fishing mortality was also considerably higher than the target for all three previous surveys.