Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Annual Review 2012

AEBAR 2012: Ecosystem effects: Habitats of particular significance to fisheries management
9. Habitats of particular significance for fisheries
management
Scope of chapter This chapter highlights subject areas that might contribute to the management
of HPSFM and hence provides a guide for future research in the absence of
an approved policy definition of HPSFM
Area All of the New Zealand EEZ and territorial sea (inclusive of the freshwater
and estuarine areas).
Locality hotspots None formally defined, but already identified likely candidates include areas
of biogenic habitat, e.g. Separation Point and Wairoa Hard, and areas
identified with large catches and/or vulnerable populations of juveniles, e.g.
Hoki Management Areas, packhorse crayfish legislated closures and toheroa
beaches.
Key issues Defining and identifying likely HPSFM and potential threats to them.
Emerging issues Connectivity and intra-population behaviour variability, multiple use
MPI Research
(current)
NZ Government
Research (current)
Links to 2030
objectives
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9.1. Context
Biogenic habitats as areas of particular significance for fisheries management
(HAB2007/01), Toheroa abundance (TOH2007/03), Research on Biogenic
Habitat-Forming Biota and their functional role in maintaining Biodiversity
in the Inshore Region (5-150M Depths) (ZBD2008/01 – this is also partfunded
by Oceans Survey 2020, NIWA and MBIE) , Habitats of particular
significance for fisheries management: Kaipara Harbour (ENV2009/07),
Habitats of particular significance for inshorefinfish fisheries management
(ENV2010/03) Spatial Mixing of GMU1 using Otolith Microchemistry
(GMU2009/01).
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) funded
programmes (Coastal Conservation Management: protecting the functions of
marine coastal habitats that support fish assemblages at local, regional and
national scales (C01X0907) Predicting the occurrence of vulnerable marine
ecosystems for planning spatial management in the South Pacific region
(C01X1229) and Impacts of resource use on vulnerable deep-sea
communities (C01X0906).
NIWA Core funding in the ’Managing marine stressors’ area under the
’Coasts and Oceans’ centre, specifically the programme ’Managing marine
resources’ and the project ’Measuring mapping and conserving (C01X0505)’
Under the Environment Outcome habitats of special significance to fisheries
need to be protected.
Land-based impacts on fisheries and supporting biodiversity, bycatch
composition, marine environmental monitoring.
The Fisheries Act 1996, in Section 9 (Environmental principles) states that:
“All persons exercising or performing functions, duties, or powers under this Act, in
relation to the utilisation of fisheries resources or ensuring sustainability, shall take
into account the following environmental principles:
(a) Associated or dependent species should be maintained above a level that ensures
their long-term viability:
(b) Biological diversity of the aquatic environment should be maintained:
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