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Forest & Bird hopes that making seafood consumers aware of problems behind our fisheries management will help them make better choices and encourage our fisheries to improve their practices. Forest & Bird Best Fish Guide 2009-2010: Ecological rankings 3
The Best Fish Guide The Best Fish Guide is a tool to inform seafood consumers and encourage environmentally sound choices of seafood. The guide covers an assessment of New Zealand’s wild-caught fisheries (see the section about farmed fisheries for more information – page 5). The assessment is based on six criteria, some of which are given heavier weighting than others: Criteria Weighting Status and sustainability of catch High Captures of protected or globally threatened species High Fishing method and impact Medium Fish biology and vulnerability to overfishing Medium Management regime appropriate to species Medium Management effectiveness and information levels Low The Best Fish Guide assessment methodology has been peer reviewed and is available for you to download at www.bestfishguide.org.nz. It is also available from Forest & Bird’s national office. The Best Fish Guide presents the results of its assessments in three formats: A detailed ecological assessment report (pages 10 - 128 of this report) A comprehensive online reference tool (www.bestfishguide.org.nz) A wallet guide that summarises fish rankings at a glance. The wallet guide ranks fisheries from green (best choice) to red (worst choice) (see Appendix I). To help you get the best taste from your Best Fish Guide we asked New Zealand chefs and fish fans, including Peta Methias, Annabel Langbein and Dobie Blaze, to share their favourite – and sustainable – fish recipes using the species identified as best choice in the guide. You can find them at www.bestfishguide.org.nz. Questions to ask Unfortunately many seafood retailers have poor information and labelling, making it difficult to make a sustainable choice. As well as using the Best Fish Guide, you can ask your retailer questions: Forest & Bird Best Fish Guide 2009-2010: Ecological rankings 4
Page 2 and 3: Best Fish Guide 2009-2010 How susta
Page 4 and 5: Contents Introduction 1 New Zealand
Page 6 and 7: Introduction New Zealand’s oceans
Page 10 and 11: What species is it? Most fish speci
Page 12 and 13: The Best and the Worst New Zealand
Page 14 and 15: Seafood assessment results The foll
Page 16 and 17: Management component: Single specie
Page 18 and 19: Anchovy Scientific name: Engraulis
Page 20 and 21: Management component: Two species m
Page 22 and 23: Bigeye tuna Scientific name: Thunnu
Page 24 and 25: Blue cod Scientific name: Paraperci
Page 26 and 27: Blue mackerel Scientific name: Scom
Page 28 and 29: Blue shark Scientific name: Prionac
Page 30 and 31: Blue warehou Scientific name: Serio
Page 32 and 33: Butterfish Scientific name: Odax pu
Page 34 and 35: Impact of fishing method and protec
Page 36 and 37: Eels Scientific name: Anguilla aust
Page 38 and 39: Elephant fish Scientific name: Call
Page 40 and 41: Flatfish Black flounder, yellow-bel
Page 42 and 43: Frostfish Scientific name: Lepidopu
Page 44 and 45: Gemfish Scientific name: Rexea sola
Page 46 and 47: Catch limits: Yes. Management plan:
Page 48 and 49: Management and management unit (sco
Page 50 and 51: Habitat damage: Bottom trawling red
Page 52 and 53: 1.2: B2009 very likely to be 39% B0
Page 54 and 55: Habitat damage: Low for purse seini
Page 56 and 57: Kahawai Scientific name: Arripis tr
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Kingfish Scientific name: Seriola l
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Ling Scientific name: Genypterus bl
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Lookdown dory Scientific name: Cytt
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Management and management unit (sco
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Orange Roughy Scientific name: Hopl
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Oreo Scientific name: Allocyttus ni
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Oysters Scientific name: Tiostrea c
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Pacific bluefin tuna Scientific nam
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Paddle crab Scientific name: Ovalip
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Stock assessment: No quantitative s
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PAU 7: “The assessment shows a de
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Queen scallops Scientific name: Chl
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Habitat damage: Trawling damages de
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GUR 8: “It is not known if recent
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Ribaldo Scientific name: Mora moro
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Impact of fishing method and protec
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Marlborough-Canterbury (CRA5): “T
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Management and management unit (sco
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Coromandel - “biomass estimates a
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Stock assessment: No completed quan
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Bycatch: Juvenile school sharks are
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Management plan: No. Management com
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Ecological effects: The primary eff
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Management plan: No. Management com
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SNA2: “As there are no indices of
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Habitat damage: Bottom trawling bul
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Impact of fishing method and protec
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Ecological effects: As with most sh
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Stargazer / monkfish Scientific nam
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Striped marlin Scientific name: Tet
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Swordfish Scientific name: Xiphias
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Tarakihi Scientific name: Nemadacty
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Trevally Scientific name: Pseudocar
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Trumpeter Scientific name: Latris l
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Yellowfin tuna Scientific name: Thu
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Yellow-eyed mullet Scientific name:
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Appendix I Best Fish Guide 2009-201
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Criteria Scores Criterion importanc
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Acronyms ACAP - Agreement on the Co
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Developed fishery - A fishery opera
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Trammel net - Type of gill net with
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Fish Name BFG name Forest & Bird Be
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