Today, I got to study seafood fishing in New Zealand today! I found a great overview at the Seafood New Zealand Website. Here is what I found:
Key facts
The quarterly economic review published by Seafood New Zealand provides up-to-date information on key export statistics (export countries and species), catch information and other local and international facts and figures.Some general facts
- NZ marine fisheries waters (Exclusive Economic Zone and territorial sea): 4.4m km2. This is the fourth largest EEZ in the world and makes us an ocean territory 'superpower'.
- NZ coastline: 15,134 km. This is the ninth longest coastline in the world.
- Species commercially fished: 130
- Species in Quota Management System: 97
- Around 50% of fishing quota is owned by Maori.
- Estimated commercial fish resource value (2009): NZ$ 4.0b
- Total allowable commercial catch (as at December 2011): 630,000 tonnes
- Total landed catch (as at December 2011): 408,000 tonnes
- Total seafood harvest (incl aquaculture): 625,000 tonnes
- In 2009 New Zealand's seafood industry was twice ranked the most sustainably managed fishery in the world. The first was the Worm/Hillborn research published in the journal Science in July 2009. The second was research published in Marine Policy in November 2009 which evaluated 53 countries and rated New Zealand best overall against 14 indicators of marine resource management.
A very interesting study, to say the least!
do you eat seafood sometimes at your house Esther? we don't very often. but last night we had salmon.
ReplyDeleteOh, we do occasionally. About once or twice a month. We mostly use canned mackerel, but once in awhile when we go to Christchurch we find a deal on one kind of fish or another. Yum!
ReplyDelete~Esther