Download FAR 2016/42 Relative abundance, size and age structure, and stock status of blue cod in Dusky Sound, Fiordland in 2014

This report describes the results of the 2014 blue cod (Parapercis colias) potting survey of Dusky Sound in Fiordland. Estimates are provided for population abundance, size and age structure, total mortality (Z), and spawner-per-recruit. This is the third survey in the Dusky Sound time series following surveys in 2002 and 2008 which were both fixed site surveys. In 2014, fixed site and random site surveys were carried out concurrently.