date:Nov 15, 2013
sets fishery and stock targets and limits for fish stocks in New Zealands Quota Management System (QMS).
There are currently 638 stocks in the QMS. Of these, 350 stocks are considered to have significant commercial or non-commercial potential. Their status is determined relative to four biological reference points a soft limit, a hard limit, an overfishing threshold, and a management target.
The soft limit is the lower bound on the desirable population size; the hard limit is a population siz