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NZ Smooth oreo SSO4 (FIP)

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Last Updated: 2019-04-11

Evaluation Start Date: 2015-06-01

Type: Comprehensive

Status: Inactive

FIP Lead: Deepwater Group (DG)

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Smooth oreo dory - East Chatham Rise

Comments:

FIP discontinued by FIP lead. FIP now inactive

1. FIP Development	Apr 15	Fishery assessment or scoping document made public 1 April 2015 — 2015 Performance of the fishery reviewed against the MSC Fisheries Standard 1 October 2014 — 2014 Performance of the fishery reviewed against the MSC Fisheries Standard 1 September 2009 — Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) undertook a high level confidential pre-assessment of SSO4 against the MSC Fisheries Standard
2. FIP Launch	Apr 15	Confirmation of project participants 1 April 2015 — FIP participants are identified
2. FIP Launch	Jul 16	Workplan made public 1 July 2016 — FIP Improvement Plan (2016) available 1 June 2015 — Remedial management actions and respective timeline 2015-2020
3. FIP Implementation	Dec 17	FIP activities undertaken 1 December 2017 — Provisional results of a revised stock assessment http://fs.fish.govt.nz/Doc/24340/53_OEO_4_2017.pdf.ashxwere considered by DWFAWG in December 2017. 1 August 2017 — Preliminary ageing results were considered by DWFAWG in August 2017 based on the otoliths collected during the 2016 biomass survey 1 October 2016 — A biomass survey was undertaken in October-November 2016 using a revised survey strategy (Doonan & Ladroit, 2017). The biomass estimates, considered by the Deep Water Fisheries Assessment Working Group (DWFAWG) in August 2017, were of a similar magnitude to those of the 2012 acoustic survey 1 July 2016 — Activities underway based on July 2016 workplan: Biomass survey is scheduled in November 2016, results to be considered by DWFAWG in 2017 H1 Validate ageing information and estimation method - Results of this work to be considered by DWFAWG mid-late 2017 A stock assessment is schedule to be completed 2017 H1 using the biomass survey results of 2016. 1 July 2016 — Suppliers are engaging regulators 1 June 2015 — FIP activities underway, specifically in relation to PI 1.2. and 2.1 31 May 2015 — 2.3 Quantitative determine ETP coral distributions within the fishery, the bioregion, and the EEZ 2.4 Assess the nature and extent of impact by the fishery on ETP corals.
4. Improvements in Fishing Practices and Fishery Management	Dec 17	Verifiable improvement in policy/management and fishing practices 1 December 2017 — Increase in BMT scores 1.2.1. and 1.2.3 (see Table 5 in Improvement Plan report) 1 February 2017 — An updated review of observer-based estimates of total bycatch in all oreo fisheries revealed that oreo accounted for 96.4% of the catch in 2013-14, the most recent year for which data are available, and that no single bycatch species contributed more than 0.9% of the total catch (Anderson, 2017 http://fs.fish.govt.nz/Page.aspx?pk=113&dk=24284).
5. Improvements on the Water	—	Verifiable improvement on the water
6. MSC certification (optional)	—	MSC certificate made public