Red Snapper

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Best Fish Guide: Red Snapper

 Ranking: E (Red - Worst Choice)

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 Description: Red snapper is a schooling fish, related to alfonsino, found around the coast of northern New Zealand from depths of 10 to 400m. It is mostly caught as a bycatch in the longline fishery for snapper (an unrelated species despite the name) off the East Coast of Northland, in the tarakihi trawl fishery around Northland. It is also caught in the set net fishery for snapper and trevally in the Bay of Plenty.

Ecological concerns: Little is known about the biology of red snapper and there is considerable uncertainty about whether separate stocks exist, stock boundaries and the state of the stocks due to the lack of a stock assessment. Also of concern is the bycatch of sharks and seabirds in longline fisheries, impacts on seabed ecology from trawling, non target fish bycatch and the lack of a management plan.

Economic value: Red snapper are mainly sold on the domestic market.

ASSESSMENT OUTPUT

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

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