Download FAR 2022/26 Characterisation of the BCO 4 blue cod (Parapercis colias) commercial fishery and an update of the standardised CPUE to the 2017–18 fishing year

Catch and effort data from 1 October 1989 to 30 September 2018 (1989–90 to 2017–18 fishing years) for blue cod (Parapercis colias) in BCO 4 (Chatham Rise) was summarised and an index of biomass using standardised catch per unit effort (CPUE) estimated. The standardised CPUE series was based on positive catch record data from Statistical Areas 049, 050, 051, or 052 and because of significant fishing fleet changes in the 1990s only data from the 1997–98 fishing year onward were considered.