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Protected species bycatch in New Zealand fisheries

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Citation

Abraham E R, Thompson F N (2016): Protected species bycatch in New Zealand fisheries. v1.6. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Dataset/Occurrence. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=protected_species_bycatch_nz&v=1.6 https://doi.org/10.15468/5bhsdi accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-18.

Description

Seabirds, marine mammals, and turtles are caught during commercial fishing operations within the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone. In order to monitor the impacts of fishing on these species, New Zealand government observers on fishing vessels record any protected species bycatch incidents that occur. Observer data on protected species captures are maintained by the Ministry for Primary Industries, with identification of captured animals carried out by the Department of Conservation. The data have been summarised in a series of reports, with the most recent report covering the period from 2002–03 to the end of the 2008–09 fishing year (Abraham and Thompson 2011b).

This dataset provides a summary of protected species bycatch in trawl and longline fisheries, from the 2002–03 to 2012–13 fishing year (fishing years run from October 1 to September 30).

Observers are only present on some fishing vessels. To estimate total captures in a fishery, it is necessary to use statistical methods to extrapolate from the observed fishing to the unobserved fishing. The total observable captures are an estimate of the captures that would have been reported, had observers been present on all fishing vessels. There may be additional mortalities (such as birds that are struck by fishing gear but not brought on board the vessel) that are not recorded by observers. These are referred to as ‘cryptic mortalities’ and are not included in the estimates of total captures, nor is there any evaluation of potential survival of seabirds recorded as captured but subsequently released alive. The methods used for the estimation follow those described in technical reports on bycatch estimation for seabirds (Abraham and Thompson 2011a, Abraham et al. 2013), and marine mammals (Thompson et al. 2013).

####Notes about some Fields: - fishing_year the fishing year of the capture. Fishing years run from 1 October to 30 September; - datetime the date and time of the capture. All times are in New Zealand Standard Time (GMT+12); - status whether the animal was alive or dead; - identification how the identification was made (necropsy: by necropsy of the dead animal; photograph: from an expert inspection of a photograph of the capture; imputation: imputed by correcting the observer code using necropsy and photographic identifications of other captures with the same observer identification; as reported by the observer); - method the fishing method (surface longline; bottom longline; trawl; set net; or purse seine); - target the target species reported by the fisher; - vessel_size the length class of the vessel (a range in m).

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Abraham E. R., Thompson F. N. (2014). Captures of turtles in trawl fisheries, in the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, from 2002–03 to 2012–18. https://data.dragonfly.co.nz/psc/v20140201/turtles/trawl/all-vessels/eez/all/ -
  2. Abraham E. R., Thompson F. N. (2014). Captures of all birds in trawl fisheries, in the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, from 2002–03 to 2012–18. https://data.dragonfly.co.nz/psc/v20140201/birds/trawl/all-vessels/eez/all/ -
  3. Abraham E. R., Thompson F. N. (2014). Captures of whales and dolphins in trawl fisheries, in the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, from 2002–03 to 2012–18. https://data.dragonfly.co.nz/psc/v20140201/whales-and-dolphins/trawl/all-vessels/eez/all/ -
  4. Abraham E. R., Thompson F. N. (2014). Captures of New Zealand sea lion in trawl fisheries, in the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, from 2002–03 to 2012–18. https://data.dragonfly.co.nz/psc/v20140201/new-zealand-sea-lion/trawl/all-vessels/eez/all/ -
  5. Abraham E. R., Thompson F. N. (2014). Captures of New Zealand fur seal in trawl fisheries, in the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, from 2002–03 to 2012–18. https://data.dragonfly.co.nz/psc/v20140201/new-zealand-fur-seal/trawl/all-vessels/eez/all/ -
  6. Abraham E. R., Thompson F. N. (2014). Captures of other seals in trawl fisheries, in the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, from 2002–03 to 2012–18. https://data.dragonfly.co.nz/psc/v20140201/other-seals/trawl/all-vessels/eez/all/ -

Contacts

E. R. Abraham
originator
position: CEO
Dragonfly Data Science
PO Box 27535
Wellington
6141
New Zealand
NZ
homepage: http://www.dragonfly.co.nz/
F. N. Thompson
originator
position: co-author
Dragonfly Data Science
PO Box 27535
Wellington
6141
NZ
homepage: http://www.dragonfly.co.nz/
Edward Abraham
metadata author
position: CEO
Dragonfly Data Science
PO Box 27535
Wellington
6141
New Zealand
NZ
homepage: http://www.dragonfly.co.nz/
Kevin Mackay
user
email: kevin.mackay@niwa.co.nz
Edward Abraham
administrative point of contact
position: CEO
Dragonfly Data Science
PO Box 27535
Wellington
6141
New Zealand
NZ
homepage: http://www.dragonfly.co.nz/
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