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AEBAR 2012: Protected species: Fur seals
Figure 4.3: Observed captures of NZ fur seals in trawl fisheries (both dead and alive), the capture rate (captures per
hundred tows) and the mean number of estimated total captures (with 95% confidence interval) by fishing year for
regions with more than 50 observed captures since 2002-03: (a) the New Zealand EEZ; (b) the Cook Strait area; (c)
the East Coast South Island area; (d) the Stewart Snares Shelf area; (e) the Subantarctic area; and (f) the West Coast
South Island area (Abraham and Thompson 2011 and http://data.dragonfly.co.nz/psc/). For more information on the
methods used to prepare the data, see Abraham and Thompson (2011).
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