Thanks Team

We have all the heads and lengths we need for a solid analysis of yellowtail kingfish growth and mortality rates. Also enough to compare growth rates between east Northland/Hauraki Gulf and Bay of Plenty. Thanks for everyone who has contributed and to those who supported the project. 

Blue Water Marine Research began using electronic tagging technologies in 2003 to investigate striped marlin from New Zealand’s recreational fishery. Advances in satellite tagging technologies has enabled detailed movements and behaviours of striped marlin in the southwest Pacific Ocean to be revealed. These data are helping to better understand how striped marlin movements and behaviours are related to the environment they live in. The success of those first efforts have led to an ongoing striped marlin satellite tagging program and expansion into electronic tagging of other species including swordfish and bluefin tuna.

Information on the size and age of yellowtail kingfish from North Cape to Cape Runaway is being collected to monitor the current state of the stock in northern New Zealand.

Recreational charter and private fishers are being asked to measure their catch and help collect otolith bones for aging.Targeted recreational fishing is the only method that is likely to catch a representative range of all adult kingfish sizes.