SCIENCE AND RIGHTS DELIVER

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1 SCIENCE AND RIGHTS DELIVER The modern history of rebuilding, enhancing and securing New Zealand s rock lobster fisheries Mark Edwards and Daryl Sykes New Zealand Rock Lobster Industry Council

2 CURRENT STATISTICS Commercial catch limit (annual) Landed value Quota value 2,689 tonnes Total annual $US160 million $US59/kg $US320K-600K/tonne Vessels 263 Participants 455 quota owners 38 LFRs

3 Pre QMS context Enablers CONTENT Management procedures Results Risks and challenges

4 CONTEXT IN 1990 Excessive effort and capacity Depleted stock status Poor economic returns Inefficiency Acrimony with government

5 CONTEXT IN 1990 cont

6 MAJOR MILESTONES 1990 ITQ allocated 1992 NRLMG formed Settlement with Maori 1993 First industry logbook 1994 Cost recovery 1996 NZRLIC / CRAMACs established First management procedure 1997 Research contestable Levy order struck

7 ENABLERS Industry organisation and capacity Government Management model

8 Bottom up Resources levy $ /tonne Initiative Effective advocacy CRA 3 CRA 4 CRA 5 CRA 2 CRA 1 NZ RLIC Coordination Oversight Policy and management Advocacy Technical & Administrative support CRA 6 CRA 7 CRA 9 CRA 8 Customary Tangata whenua regional and local Amateur Fishing Clubs Regional and Local MPI - Fisheries Regional National Local Authorities RMA Coastal Policy Port companies Etc. Other Agencies Conservation Maritime Transport Search & Rescue

9 GOVERNMENT Contestability of services Cost recovery Devolved management

10 MANAGEMENT MODEL Minister for Primary Industries Statutory Decision Making CRA 3 CRA 2 CRA 1 CRA 4 CRA 5 RESEARCH PARTNERS CRA 6 NZ RLIC Coordination Oversight Policy and management Technical support Representation Advocacy RESEARCH CRA 7 CRA 8 CRA 9 R/L Fishery Assessment Working Group National Rock Lobster Management Group NRLMG Primary advice to Minister Co-operative stakeholder group Customary Amateur Commercial Science MPI - Compliance - Management

11 INDUSTRY ROLE IN SCIENCE Industry is the research provider Why? How? Integrity and quality Fisheries first; from them all benefits flow

12 RESEARCH COMPONENTS counting the beast Stock monitoring Statutory catch effort data Logbook program Catch sampling program Tagging program Puerulus collection Stock assessment Length based modelling MPs / MPEs Elective research

13 STOCK MONITORING CRA1 CRA2 CRA3 CRA4 CRA5 CRA6 CRA7 CRA8 CRA9 Total Vessels Logbook n/a % vessels 39% 52% 19% 23% 60% 14% n/a 20% 71% Catch sampling (pot lifts) (1277) (1039) (1855) (3221) n/a n/a (1414) n/a n/a Tagging n/a n/a n/a

14 VESSEL LOGBOOK PROGRAM Four sample pots per day Measure and record all catch in each sample pot Electronic data entry Superior to observer catch sampling coverage for use in assessments

15 CATCH SAMPLING Observer catch sampling used to augment logbooks Factors affecting CPUE index addressed by standardisation

16 Growth and movement 9,000 lobsters tagged in last 2 years 176,000 lobsters tagged over 20 year program 26,000 recaptures across all QMAs (incl. multiple) TAGGING

17 PUERULUS COLLECTION

18 Stock assessment Length based model Management procedures (MPs) Management procedure evaluation (MPEs) STOCK ASSESSMENT

19 MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES Certainty and consistency Transparency and responsiveness Less argument Achieve targets and avoid limits

20 MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES

21 ELECTIVE RESEARCH Biosecurity Genetics Climate change Animal husbandry and handling Protected species interactions Marine biotoxins

22 RESULTS

23 RESULTS

24 RESULTS

25 RESULTS

26 RISKS AND CHALLENGES Incomplete rights based framework Politicisation of fisheries Spatial and management encroachment Reliance on a single market Operational management not anchored in legislation Climate change and anthropogenic impacts in nearshore

27 ALLOCATION OF THE TAC

28 SPATIAL AND MANAGEMENT ENCROACHMENT Demand for more marine protected areas (MPAs) Unnecessary and inefficient for stock management Enroachment by regional government

29 CONCLUSION Rights Science partnership Management procedures