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 development of a new stock assessment model for the CRA 6 stock (the Chatham Islands).
The stock assessment estimated that since 1995, the stock size has steadily increased and is projected to increase over the next five years assuming current catches and recent recruitment patterns.
FAR 2024/23 The 2023 stock assessment of red rock lobsters (Jasus edwardsii) in CRA 6
Type
Report - Fisheries Assessment Report (FAR)
Published
Last updated
ISBN Online
978-1-991285-41-6
ISSN Online
1179-5352