There is a one-month lag between the data being processed and the data being published to the MPI website. The data is provisional for three months from the time of its release and is at the national level only.
At least three years of data is available on the MPI website. Further time series of the data are available on Infoshare, a service provided by Statistics New Zealand which allows viewing of the meat slaughter statistics at both the national and the regional levels. http://www.stats.govt.nz/infoshare/. The most recent time series of the data will be available on Infoshare by the 30th of each month.
Questions about the data can be emailed to stats_info@mpi.govt.nz.
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 collation and review of inputs for the 2023 stock assessment of CRA 6 (the Chatham Islands).