This document summarises MPI's achievements over the 2018/19 year and describes our performance in striving to reach our outcomes.

The 2018/19 Annual Report for the Ministry for Primary Industries won a Bronze Award in the 2020 Australasian Reporting Awards (ARA) announced on 17 June 2020. The ARA Awards are an opportunity to benchmark reports against best practice and Australasian peers, and to receive recognition for excellence in reporting.

Surveillance is published as the Ministry for Primary Industries’ authoritative source of information on the ongoing biosecurity surveillance activity and the health status of New Zealand’s animal and plant populations in both terrestrial and aquatic environments.
It reports information of interest both locally and internationally and complements
New Zealand’s international reporting.

This report presents the results of a nationwide survey of 6975 empanelled marine fishers, and 2203
members of the public screened as 'non-fishers' who reported their actual fishing activity over the fishing
year from 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2018. The survey was conducted by the National Research
Bureau Ltd (NRB) on behalf of the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), with the division now called
Fisheries New Zealand.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) leads New Zealand's food safety system, protecting the health and wellbeing of consumers here and overseas. This includes reducing food-related risks to human health. Human health surveillance is an essential element of the monitoring and review component of MPI’s risk management framework. This report for 2017 forms part of a series providing a consistent source of data annually to monitor trends on foodborne illness in New Zealand.

This report is a summary of work to develop a coherent dataset of benthic invertebrate distributions on Chatham Rise based on seabed photographic surveys. The dataset spans the full extent of Chatham Rise in depths from 40 m to 1850 m, combining analyses of 358 seabed transects from five surveys. The primary purpose of the dataset is to enable development of improved predictive models of faunal distributions that can be used to inform ecosystem-based management of the region.

Surveillance is published as the Ministry for Primary Industries’ authoritative source
of information on the ongoing biosecurity surveillance activity and the health status of
New Zealand’s animal and plant populations in both terrestrial and aquatic environments.
It reports information of interest both locally and internationally and complements
New Zealand’s international reporting.

This Primary Growth Partnership newsletter informs stakeholders and interested parties about PGP activities while also profiling one of the current PGP programmes in each issue.

Surveillance is published as the Ministry for Primary Industries’ authoritative source
of information on the ongoing biosecurity surveillance activity and the health status of
New Zealand’s animal and plant populations in both terrestrial and aquatic environments.
It reports information of interest both locally and internationally and complements
New Zealand’s international reporting.

D’Archino, R.; Neill, K.F.; Nelson, W.A.; Fachon, E.; Peat, C. (2019). New Zealand Macroalgae: Distribution and Potential as National Scale Ecological Indicators.

New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report No.207. 217 p.

Canopy-forming macroalgae are internationally recognised as critical components of coastal ecosystems as primary producers, coastal buffers and provision of habitat. This report evaluates the use of large brown macroalgae as indicators of ecosystem health by: summarising the international and national literature; testing the responses of key species to stressors in culture; investigating a range of approaches to mapping and monitoring, including the use of drones and machine learning to analyse underwater videos.