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New Zealand Hoki

Greenpeace Canada Redlist

Fishery Facts

Latin Name
Macruronus novaezelandiae

Other Common Names
Blue grenadier, hoki, blue hake, New Zealand whiptail, whiptail, whiptail hake.

Fishing Method
Bottom trawl (targeting non-spawning groups) and mid-water trawl (targeting spawning groups), use of twin-rigging increasing.

Region of Harvest
Southern Australia, New Zealand.

New Zealand hoki (blue grenadier)
Why is it on the red list?   Biology

1.
The fishery has concerning levels of bycatch of juvenile fish, endangered and threatened albatross, basking sharks and fur seals.

2.
New Zealand hoki stocks are declining, and there is no formal rebuilding plan in place.

3.
Bottom trawling is highly destructive to benthic ecosystems. Trawling for hoki takes place in sensitive, deep-water habitats such as seamounts.

New Zealand Hoki are found most abundantly between 200 and 600 metres below sea level, but can live at depths up to 1000 metres.

Hoki live up to 25 years and mature between the ages of four and five years.

The largest hoki measure up to 1.3 meters and weigh up to seven kilograms.

Hoki feed on fish, crustaceans and squid.