New Zealand attended the 45th session of the CCFFV.

The Yellow-eyed Penguin Database (YEPDB), containing monitoring, marking, post-mortem, and captivity data for yellow-eyed penguins in New Zealand from 1971 to 2022, was groomed following a 5-step scripted and manual cleaning workflow. Original records, often in paper form, were digitally archived in a Microsoft SharePoint Data Management System (DMS), along with the cleaned tables, master lists, ancillary tables, database metadata, and 29 lookup tables.

New abundance indices for the northern gemfish stock in SKI 1 and SKI 2 have been developed. The main index for adult fish is based on catch-per-unit-effort from the gemfish and hoki target trawl fishery focused in the Bay of Plenty. A tarakihi-target index monitors juvenile fish. Following a period of high recruitment beginning in 2016, the northern stock has increased substantially and was assessed to be above the target reference point in 2021. Abundance has increased further in 2022.

This project explores the use of decision-support tools to identify trawl corridors in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park (HGMP). Biogenic habitat spatial distributions were modelled for twenty functional groups and scenarios developed using decision-support tools were presented at four advisory group workshops. The results can be used to inform spatial management processes in the HGMP.

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