A brochure outlining some of the ways that government and industry are working together to ready the sector for future growth.

An economic analysis accompanying the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee’s (NAWAC) review of farrowing crates for farrowing sows and options and alternatives to their use in New Zealand.

The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) was asked to assess whether there needed to be an amendment to the Pigs Code of Welfare regarding farrowing crates. NAWAC’s review of farrowing crates for farrowing sows, and options and alternatives to their use in New Zealand, showed there was no recent significant change in science, technology or good practice and recommends that the existing standard remains in place (no review of the Code is necessary).

This document provides the business rules that apply to fees and charges for the provision of services under the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (ACVM) Act 1997.

Notes summarising the discussions which took place at 10 workshops and meetings that MPI held during August and September 2015 with industry and animal welfare advocacy groups. These workshops considered options for potential regulations relating the care of, and conduct towards animals; and surgical and painful procedures.

Workshop with Industry Stakeholders, 4 February 2016, Wellington

Objective 2 of the Ministry for Primary Industries’ project PAU 2008-02 involved timed-swim surveys of PAU 5D to estimate the abundance of paua in the commercial fishery. After two reviews of the timed-swim methodology it was concluded that the relationship between abundance and the survey indices was unlikely to be linear.

Photographic and trawl surveys of scampi in SCI 1 and SCI 2 were conducted in February and March 2015 from the RV Kaharoa. These areas were last surveyed in 2012. On each voyage, the photographic survey component was completed first, followed by the trawl survey component. Both the photographic and trawl surveys of SCI 1 suggest that population biomass and abundance has remained relatively stable since the last survey (2012). The SCI 2 surveys both show an increase in biomass and abundance since 2012, continuing the trend of improvement in the stock since 2006.

Acoustic survey carried out between 16 to 29 October 2014 using San Waitaki (voyage SWA1402). The survey covered the southern slope of the west end of the Chatham Rise and was the fifth in a series of acoustic surveys of the area, with earlier surveys carried out in 1997, 2002, 2006, and 2011.

This report provides an update of previous information on the incidental capture and mortality of marine mammals in commercial fisheries in New Zealand (most recently, Thompson et al. 2011, Thompson et al. 2013a).

This report describes and updates the available information on stock structure of orange roughy for fisheries in the western region of the SPRFMO area. The review takes an holistic approach, where multiple observational data sets were examined in order to maximise the likelihood of correctly defining stocks, given that no single data set would provide complete and unequivocal information. The review supports the retention of existing assessment boundaries for fisheries in the Tasman Sea, but revises the Louisville Seamount Chain area based on timing of spawning.

Black oreo ages from mark identification trawls in acoustic surveys were used to estimate the fraction of mature fish in the shallow area that is largely unfished compared to that in the fished area for the management area OEO 3A, and to compare these to that predicted in the stock assessment model. If onset of maturity is triggered by age, then the model is optimistic for mature fish in the unfished area. Deficiencies in the model were revealed because it relied on lengths as a proxy for age.

This document presents data for use in the 2015 stock assessments and management procedure evaluations for rock lobsters in CRA 5, CRA 7 and CRA 8. Data sets described in this report include catch estimates for all sectors of these fisheries, seasonal standardised CPUE indices, length frequency distributions, tag-recapture data and puerulus settlement data.