The Integrated Electronic Monitoring and Reporting System regulations require information on oyster catch, bycatch, and oyster discards from the Foveaux Strait oyster fishery (OYU 5) to be reported daily, at a spatial scale of 1 nm based on fishers’ logbook grid cells. Fishery independent bycatch sampling was undertaken after the February 2020 oyster and Bonamia exitiosa survey. This report describes the data on oyster discards and quantification of bycatch to fulfil the reporting requirements.

This is a guidance document to inform the development and implementation of benthic monitoring of salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. It was first published in 2015, revised in 2019, and further revised in this version after an out-of-cycle review in 2022. It aims to provide consistent and clear requirements for the benthic monitoring and management of existing farms, based around an agreed set of environmental quality standards with accompanying rationale.

New Zealand produces a range of ready-to-eat dried meat products where food safety often relies on a cook or fermentation step. However, some dried products use water activity, pH or added ingredients to ensure food safety. There is little documented proof to support validation of the food safety aspects of the drying process. This review determines if any existing models can be used to validate this process and provide guidance or a predictive model for the inactivation of pathogens of concern.

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A review is provided of the available literature on ling, primarily to provide synopses on the biology and life history of the species from New Zealand and elsewhere, but also to describe the history and development of the New Zealand fisheries for ling and summarise the assessment and management of ling in New Zealand waters.