Download FAR 2025/19 Operational management procedures for New Zealand rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) in CRA 7 and CRA 8 for 2025–26

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.

The catch quotas are calculated for some QMAs using management procedures (MPs). Given an input, such as catch per unit effort (CPUE), MPs return an output such as Total Allowable Commercial Catch (TACC).

This document describes the operation of the current MPs used to manage New Zealand red rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) in CRA 7 and CRA 8 for the 2025–26 fishing year. The operation of the MPs for the upcoming 2025–26 fishing year indicated that there should be no change in TACC for CRA 8, but indicated an increase in TACC for CRA 7.