Download FAR 2023/04 Designs for surveys of recreational pāua fisheries

This report reviews data available on New Zealand’s recreational pāua fisheries, which are then used to inform recommended survey approaches for the PAU 2, 3, 5D, and 7 fisheries. An earlier unpublished version of this report provided the basis for the design of a survey of the recreational pāua fishery along the Kaikōura coast during a three-month period in 2021–22 which has now been updated to provide harvest estimates provided by the more recent 2017–18 national panel survey.