Download FAR 2024/30 Characterisation of fishery data for red rock lobsters (Jasus edwardsii) in CRA 9

The red rock lobster supports the most valuable inshore commercial fishery in New Zealand. This fishery has been managed with catch quotas in nine Quota Management Areas (QMAs), which are usually treated as independent populations or stocks.

To estimate those quotas, a stock assessment is done for each QMA approximately every five years. These stock assessments include a review of the previous stock assessments and data inputs, the addition of new data, data processing, and development of a new stock assessment model.

This document describes the characterisation of fisheries and relevant biological data for the CRA 9 stock (the West Coast of the North Island and upper West Coast of the South Island).