The following AsureQuality employees are recognised for the verification of export requirements for live animals and germplasm under the Animal Products Act 1999.

MAF's Land Cover Database has been used as the basis for this study to allow accurate definition of the area of New Zealand that actually supports high indigenous forest. Cadastral information has then been overlaid to define the areas of the natural forest estate that are in Maori ownership. Subsequent to this, forest class data has been used to define areas of indigenous forest that have current commercial timber potential in terms of the requirements of the Amended Forests Act.

The collection and publication of NEFD information is overseen by the NEFD Steering Committee - a forest industry committee with members nominated by the New Zealand Forest Owners' Association and MPI. This resource information is provided annually to assist in resource and policy planning and assessing processing opportunities and infrastructural requirements.

This document summarises the status of New Zealand’s fish stocks relative to the requirements of the Harvest Strategy Standard for New Zealand Fisheries, which was finalised in October 2008. Assessments against other metrics are documented in the annual review reports associated with the Ministry’s Fisheries Plans.

Waikato Regional Council is currently developing a guidance document for the aquaculture industry and other stakeholders in its region. The document aims to provide clear information on environmental monitoring requirements for aquaculture consents, as well as a methodology for integrating consent and state of the environment monitoring.

This survey assessed nutrition content and health claims made on 700 food labels across 16 food categories available for retail sale in 2022 in NZ. Claims were identified then assessed to show: the most commonly used claims, whether they met regulatory requirements in Standard 1.2.7 of the Food Standards Code, and any trends since the last survey in 2016/17. Nutrition Content claims were most commonly made on foods. Health claims were less common but had doubled in popularity compared with the previous survey.

Fishing for oysters in Foveaux Strait does not allow for tow-by-tow reporting of bycatch and oyster discards. These data were estimated from stratified sampling (by region and fishing effort) in February 2021. Oyster discards above and below legal size during the 2020 season were relatively low. Live bycatch, 25.0% of all dredge contents, represented 81 taxa (most of negligible weight). Non-QMS species (47.9%) mostly 4 species, bryozoans-sponges (33.4%), and QMS species (4.9%, SUR and SSC).

The Integrated Electronic Monitoring and Reporting System regulations require information on oyster catch, bycatch, and oyster discards from the Foveaux Strait oyster fishery (OYU 5) to be reported daily, at a spatial scale of 1 nm based on fishers’ logbook grid cells. Fishery independent bycatch sampling was undertaken after the February 2020 oyster and Bonamia exitiosa survey. This report describes the data on oyster discards and quantification of bycatch to fulfil the reporting requirements.

This is a guidance document to inform the development and implementation of benthic monitoring of salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. It was first published in 2015, revised in 2019, and further revised in this version after an out-of-cycle review in 2022. It aims to provide consistent and clear requirements for the benthic monitoring and management of existing farms, based around an agreed set of environmental quality standards with accompanying rationale.

Spatial analyses are increasingly being undertaken on fishery and fishery related data in the New Zealand region. This paper proposes a standard CRS and a common origin for grids to enable data from any analyses to be overlaid, combined, and reused while minimising resampling requirements and reprojection/overlay artefacts.