Recent trends in the JDO 2 commercial fishery are summarised. Eastern JDO 2 is managed as a discrete stock unit. The standardised CPUE indices for inshore trawl fishery in eastern JDO 2 were updated to the 2021/22 fishing year. Since 2010/11–2011/12, the CPUE indices have increased towards the interim target biomass level and the most recent CPUE index (2021/22) was 76% of the interim target level.

In Bay of Plenty the standardised John dory CPUE index declined in an irregular manner from 1994/95 to 2020/21 to 51% of its initial level. For east Northland and Hauraki Gulf the index declined from 1994/95 to 2012/13 then increased to be at 43% of its initial level in 2020/21. For west coast North Island the standardised index has fluctuated without trend since 1994/95.

This report describes the recreational landed catch of southern bluefin tuna in 2021–22. The winter fishery off Cape Runaway makes up the largest component of this catch. An on-site boat ramp survey estimated the catch from Waihau Bay to be 486 (CV 0.045) southern bluefin with an average weight of 70.08 kg. Sport fishing club records and charter boat catches were compiled and included. The 2021–22 national recreational harvest estimate is 59.8 t with an estimated range of 56.7 t to 62.9 t.

Striped marlin is one of the main target species in the New Zealand gamefish fishery. Professional skippers on charter boats have provided striped marlin catch and effort information in voluntary surveys since 1975. Since 2007 private and charter skippers have provided daily records of billfish fishing. Negative binomial GLMs were used to standardise striped marlin CPUE up to 2021–22. The annual catch of billfish, yellowfin tuna, and mako sharks is described from detailed fishing club records.

This report reviews data available on New Zealand’s recreational pāua fisheries, which are then used to inform recommended survey approaches for the PAU 2, 3, 5D, and 7 fisheries. An earlier unpublished version of this report provided the basis for the design of a survey of the recreational pāua fishery along the Kaikōura coast during a three-month period in 2021–22 which has now been updated to provide harvest estimates provided by the more recent 2017–18 national panel survey.

Recent trends in the BCO7 fishery are summarised with emphasis on the operation of the target potting fishery in the Marlborough Sounds. The small number of vessels in the fishery and the local scale operation of individual vessels meant that It was not feasible to develop CPUE indices for the fishery.