Download FAR 2012/47 Fishery characterisation and standardised CPUE analyses for arrow squid (Nototodarus gouldi and N. sloanii), 1989–90 to 2007–08, and potential management approaches for southern fisheries

This report includes description of New Zealand arrow squid fisheries catches up to the fishing year 2007–08; development of catch-per-unit-effort models for the Auckland and Snares Islands fisheries (separately and combined); a summary of observer size frequency data for the Auckland and Snares Islands fisheries; a summary of trawl survey biomass and size frequency data; and a review of stock structure. It makes recommendations on future data requirements and methods for monitoring the stocks.