Ministry for Primary Industries

BYC2022-02 - Risk assessment for selected shark species

Overall Objective:

Produce a spatial overlap-based risk assessment for selected chondrichthyan species.

Specific Objectives:

1. Develop distribution maps for selected chondrichthyan species using available data.
2. Utilise catch and distribution data to conduct a spatial overlap-based risk assessment for selected chondrichthyan species.
3. Where possible, estimate the nature and extent of incidental captures of selected chondrichthyan species in New Zealand commercial fisheries up to the 2021/22 fishing year.
4. Broader outcomes.

Department/Business Unit: Fisheries New Zealand