Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Annual Review 2012

AEBAR 2012: Appendices: Past projects
PROTECTED SPECIES continued
Project Code Project Title Specific Objectives Status Citation/s
ENV2005-09 Data collection to estimate
key performance
indicators in the Chatham
albatross, Diomedea
eremita.
ENV2005-13 Assessment of risk to
yellow-eyed penguin
Megady-ptes antipodes
from fisheries incidental
mortality
ENV2004-04 Characterisation of
seabird captures in New
Zealand fisheries
ENV2004-05 Modelling of impacts of
fishing-related mortality on
New Zealand seabird
populations
1. To gather data on key population parameters for Chatham albatross
Diomedea eremita- to enable population viability to be assessed- and the
responses of key parameters to fisheries mortality and fisheries management
activities to mitigate fisheries related risk
2. To undertake field research to collect data on population growth rates- adult
survival- inter-breeding season survival- mortality due to predation at the colonyfecundity
and associated parameters for Chatham Albatross- following the study
design project
3. To undertake field research to determine the range and extent foraging
movements of Chatham albatrosses within New Zealand fishing waters- and
examine the nature and extent of any association between Chatham albatrosses
and fishing activities.
1. To review existing data on yellow-eyed penguin M. antipodes population
performance and fisheries information and provide an analysis of the potential
effect of fishing mortality and other factors on population viability.
2. To recommend data collection requirements and protocols for the assessment
of the effects of fishing on yellow-eyed penguins.
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Completed No reports specified as
required output
Completed Maunder 2007
1. Characterisation of seabird captures in New Zealand fisheries. Completed Mackenzie & Fletcher 2006
1. To examine and identify modelling approaches to analyse seabird
demographic impacts that may be occurring as a result of fisheries mortality.
2. To compile databases of available demographic and distributional data on
selected seabirds affected by fisheries mortality and New Zealand fisheries and
estimate key population parameters and seasonal distribution for each species.
3. To estimate rates of removals related to fishing activities in New Zealand for
selected seabird species, where possible by age class and sex.
4. To describe the spatial overlap of seabird distributions at sea, with fisheries
where the risk of incidental mortality has been demonstrated to be moderate to
high.
5. To examine the potential for factors other than fisheries removals within the
New Zealand
zone to influence the population dynamics of the selected study species.
6. To characterise selected seabird populations’ abilities to sustain removals
related to fishing operations within the New Zealand EEZ, and to recommend,
where possible environmental standards for assessing the sustainability of
selected fishing operations in relation to impacts on seabird populations.
Completed Fletcher et al. 2008