Management of the New Zealand Pelagic and Deepwater Longline Fisheries with Particular Reference to the catches of non-target fish species and the interactions that occur with non-fish species.

Richard Cade

The paper will review the development and progress of these two longline fisheries over the last 10 years with reference to:

• the increase catch of the target species;
• the catches of non-target species;
• the interaction with seabirds and marine mammals.

While this paper gives a commercial fisheries perspective, it will also examine changes in fishing operations and practices including:

• the mitigation of accidental capture of seabirds;
• the spatial conflicts that arise between different competing groups that utilise the pelagic fishery;