Download FAR 2012/15 Settlement indices for 2010 for the red rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii)

Levels of puerulus settlement are monitored using ‘crevice’ collectors at seven key sites that encompass much of the main rock lobster fishing coast of New Zealand; Gisborne (CRA 3), Napier and Castlepoint (CRA 4), Kaikoura (CRA 5), Moeraki (CRA 7), and Halfmoon Bay and Jackson Bay (CRA 8). Groups of collectors at each site are checked monthly when possible and a monthly mean catch per group of collectors is calculated. An annual raw and standardised index is also produced for each key site.