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Amber - Concerns
Albacore tuna
Anchovy
Blue cod
Blue mackerel
Blue moki
Bluenose
Butterfish/Greenbone
Cockles
Frostfish
Garfish
Grey mullet
John dory
Kahawai
Kina
Kingfish/Yellowtail
Packhorse lobster/Crayfish
Paddle crabs
Paua
Pilchard
Red cod
Red gurnard
Rock lobster/Crayfish
Silver warehou
Skipjack tuna
Sprats
Tarakihi
Trevally
White warehou
Yellow-eyed mullet

Red - Worst Choice
Alfonsino
Arrow squid
Barracouta
Bigeye tuna
Black cardinal fish
Blue warehou
Blue shark
Dark ghost shark/Pearl
Eels
Elephantfish
Flatfish/Flounder/Sole/Brill/Turbot
Gemfish
Groper/Hapuku/Bass
Hake
Hoki
Jack mackeral
Leatherjacket/Creamfish
Ling
Lookdown dory
Mako shark
Moonfish
Orange roughy
Oreos/Deepwater dory
Oysters - Bluff/Nelson
Pacific bluefin tuna
Pale ghost shark/Pearl
Porbeagle shark
Queen scallops
Red snapper
Ribaldo
Rig/Lemonfish
Rubyfish
Scallops
Scampi
School shark/Tope/Flake
Sea perch/Scarpee
Skates
Snapper
Spiny dogfish
Stargazer/Monkfish
Striped marlin
Southern blue whiting
Southern bluefin tuna
Swordfish
Trumpeter
Yellow fin tuna

Seafood Rankings

These rankings are based on an assessment of information about and management of the sotaks: the amount of habitat and ecological damage caused by the fishery; and levwels of seabird, marine mammal and other bycatch.

This page was updated on 8 November, 2007