This report reviews key aspects of Kiwifruit New Zealand (KNZ) consistent with best practice in industry regulation.

This fact sheet provides an overview of your responsibilities if you are involved in the milling and/or export of swamp kauri. Activities relating to the milling and export of swamp kauri are controlled under the Forests Act 1949. If you are an operator, it is important you understand and adhere to the rules that affect your business. MPI is responsible for implementing and enforcing the provisions of the Forests Act.

Advice for getting through adverse events for farmers, growers, workers and families

Organisations which use animals for the purposes of research, testing and teaching are legally obliged to submit certain statistics to MPI each year. This report summarises the statistics submitted for 2014.

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.

This report provides the provisional estimates of the sales of tree stocks and the areas of forest planted in 2015. The provisional estimates are based on returns from 27 forestry nurseries covered by this annual survey. This information is then used in a model to generate estimates of planting by species or species groups, and a total area planted.

A survey into the loss of bee hives in New Zealand has found the rate to be low-to-average compared to international studies.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and the beekeeping industry released a report into the findings of the inaugural New Zealand Colony Loss and Survival Survey (NZCOLOSS) in 2015.
The results will provide baseline information for monitoring managed honey bee colony loss and survival over time. The major cause of hive loss was problems associated with Queen Bees.

A Summary of the Risk Assessment of Threats to New Zealand Sea lions’ is a report that describes the work undertaken, as part of the development of a draft Threat Management Plan (TMP), to assess risks to New Zealand sea lions. The risk assessment process used for the development of the TMP aimed to quantify which threats pose most risk to the sea lion population, and inform the prioritisation of management actions that would meet the management goals of the TMP. The approach involved the development of demographic models, compilation of data on threats, a risk triage process and detailed modelling of key threats where sufficient data was available.

The western stock is estimated to be 36–69% B0 and the eastern stock 43–78% B0 (values are 95% CIs for the base case). For the western stock recruitment has been near or above average since 2001, except in 2010, 2012 and 2013 when it was likely to have been below average (although this is estimated with high uncertainty). In projections the eastern and western biomasses are likely to remain stable or decline slightly over the next five years.

This report includes a description of all New Zealand blue mackerel fisheries from 1999–00 to 2013–14 for EMA 1, 2, 3, and EMA 7. It describes CPUE analyses for the West Coast region; a summary of observer and market sampling size frequency data; a summary of trawl survey size frequency data; and a review of stock structure. It makes recommendations on future data requirements and methods for monitoring the stocks.

An updated Bayesian assessment was presented for the LIN 5&6 (Sub-Antarctic) stock. A model fitted to proportion at-age and survey relative biomass series and using free trawl survey q’s was adopted as the base model. This estimated that B0 was 290 000 t and that B2014 was 86% of B0. The current stock size was estimated to be well above the management target of 40% B0, and is likely to increase slightly over the next 5 years at the most recent catch level or to decrease at the level of the TACC.