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New Zealand Fisheries Policy Reform: Future of Fisheries
by New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries (Government)
Key elements of this Future of Fisheries work programme include:
The Strategic Review of Fisheries Management System this project focuses on 3 priorities for our fisheries policy programme over the next 2 years:
maximising value from our fisheries
better fisheries information
agile and responsive decision making.
The Future of Fisheries work programme also includes two regulatory changes:
Integrated Electronic Monitoring and Reporting System (IEMRS) - this would involve electronic reporting of catch and fishing effort by commercial fishers, monitoring and verification using automated geospatial position reporting and automated on-vessel cameras. This is expected to be implemented from 1 October 2018.
Progress reports
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
Type of commitment
  • Compliance, monitoring and enforcement
  • Science-based fisheries management plans
October 2017
Electronic reporting and geospatial position reporting regulations to come into effect
October 2017
Delivery of enabling innovative trawl technology regulations
October 2018
Electronic monitoring regulations to come into effect
Staff / Technical expertise
Staff and technical expertise for strategic review and regulatory changes
Basic information
Time-frame: 2017 - 2018
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Partners
Ministry for Primary Industries (Government) Ministry for the Environment (Government), Department of Conservation (Government)
Ocean Basins
  • South Pacific
Beneficiary countries
Other beneficaries
Contact information
Luke Roughton, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, luke.roughton@mfat.govt.nz,
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