Download (l_line) Longline Sampling

The l_line database contains comprehensive information collected by Scientific Observers placed on surface longline vessels (both foreign and domestic) in the New Zealand tuna fishery (comparable data from bottom longliners is stored in obs_lfs). Data includes information on gear types, catch and effort, and incidental seabird and marine mammal bycatch. This database has been replaced by the cod database in 2009.