Commercial catch and effort data and fisheries observer records of catch and discards by species were used to estimate the rate and level of non-target catch and discards in the scampi and arrow squid trawl fisheries for fishing years 2002–03 to 2020–21. Estimates were made for broad categories of catch and discards including target species, QMS species, non-QMS fish, and non-QMS invertebrate species, and estimates of annual catch were made for several of the major individual non-target species.

This report provides a comprehensive overview of fishery data inputs for assessment of the risk of New Zealand commercial fisheries to New Zealand seabird populations. The risk assessment uses the Spatially Explicit Fisheries Risk Assessment (SEFRA) framework, which requires spatially resolved fishing effort and capture data. These data inputs were extracted from the Protected Species Capture database (version 6; up to and including the 2019/20 fishing year) and prepared for analysis.