Lookdown Dory

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 Best Fish Guide: Lookdown Dory

 Ranking: E (Red - Worst Choice)

What's this? 

 Description: An offshore, deepwater species that is widely distributed around New Zealand and caught as bycatch in trawl fisheries, particularly the hoki fishery.

Ecological concerns: The absence of some basic biological information, the absence of a quantitative stock assessment, the unknown sustainability of recent catch levels and the absence of a management plan. The fishery also has direct impacts on seafloor communities as a result of trawl fishing. As lookdown dory is a bycatch of other fisheries, it is also associated with seabird, marine mammal and other non-target fish bycatch.

Economic value: Lookdown dory is sold in New Zealand and Asia.

ASSESSMENT OUTPUT

Biology and risk of overfishing (score C)
Status and sustainability of fish catches (score D)
Impact of fishing method and protected, threatened and endangered species captures (score E and C)
Management and management unit (score E and D)

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