Tagging programmes have been used to provide information on fish and
fisheries to central government policy makers in New Zealand for many
years. A wide variety of species have been the subject of such studies,
including finfish, shellfish and rock lobsters. In New Zealand, the
Ministry for Primary Industries (formerly the Ministry of Fisheries) has
funded these programmes to aid with fisheries research and stock
assessment. Data from these programme are held in the "tag" database,
from which the data in this dataset are sourced.
Citation: Ministry for Primary Industries (2014). New Zealand research tagging
database. Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and
Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 411926 records.Online: http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=mpi_tag Released on November 5, 2014.Bibliographic Citations: http://www.fish.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/E827F55F-0779-4599-8223-92538AC61725/0/research_database_tag_2011.pdf
