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Hoiho Threat Management and Recovery Plan

Report on progress to the Annual Yellow-eyed Penguin Symposium 2018

Hoiho Governance/Technical Group representatives at Symposium: DOC – Ian Angus Fisheries New Zealand – Jenny Oliver Ngāi Tahu – Yvette Couch-Lewis Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust – Eric Shelton

What’s the problem?

• Responding to a continued serious decline in the mainland populations of Hoiho.
• Multiple different events over time.
• Uncertainty about the trends in the Southern (or sub-Antarctic) populations: only

informed guesses.

• Response:
• Will be within the context of a Treaty Partnership and multiple agencies.
• Needs to give assurance to stakeholder and site managers that responses are

appropriate.

• The best advice we have in a situation of incomplete knowledge.

Establishing a new leadership framework:

• 1. Recommendations were taken from:
• DOC report Review of population information

(Ellenberg & Mattern, 2012)

• Penguin Book Chapter (Seddon et al., 2013)
• Yellow-eyed Penguin Stock-Take Report –

He pūrongo mō te Hoiho (Lewis, McKinlay, Murray & Edge-Hill, 2016)

• 2. Engagement with Fisheries New Zealand
• 3. Establishment of a Hoiho Governance Group (HGG)

to set a strategic direction on behalf of the four Partners

• 4. Establishment of a Hoiho Technical Group (HTG)

to undertake work to develop a new Strategy

• Hoiho Governance Group (HGG)
• Sets the strategic direction for hoiho

recovery including:

• the shared recovery vision, goals and

timeframes

• collective agreement about priorities
• Maintain oversight and provide

accountability of the overall hoiho recovery programme

• Sets the work programme for the HTG
• Hoiho Technical Group (HTG)
• Lead the development of a new and fit-

for-purpose hoiho recovery strategy

• Identify immediate recommendations

including developing operational action plans

• Provide relevant and robust technical and

strategic advice

• Identify knowledge gaps to advance

hoiho recovery "Hoiho threat management and recovery plan mandated under the Conservation and Fisheries Acts" with the additional context of working with our Treaty Partner.

Site managers have confidence to deliver conservation of hoiho

Hoiho Governance Group Members: Department of Conservation: Ian Angus (Manager Marine Species, Threats and Conservation

Services Programme) and Aaron Fleming (Director Operations Southern South Island)

Fisheries NZ: Allen Frazer (Team Manager Fisheries Inshore South) Ngāi Tahu: Yvette Couch-Lewis (Hoiho species recovery representative) Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust: Eric Shelton (Trust Board Chair) and Sue Murray (General Manager) Sponsors: Department of Conservation: Lian Butcher (Director Aquatic) Fisheries NZ Stuart Anderson (Director Fisheries Management) Hoiho Technical Group Members: Department of Conservation: Bruce McKinlay (Technical Advisor Ecology, Chair of HTG), Kris Ramm (Science Advisor

Conservation Services Programme), Dave Houston (Technical Advisor Ecology), Annie Wallace (Operations Manager Coastal Otago)

Fisheries NZ: Jenny Oliver (Senior Fisheries Analyst) and Nathan Walker (Principal Scientist Aquatic Environment) Ngāi Tahu: Estelle Leask (Environmental Advisor within Team Mauri, Te Ao Turoa Group) Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust: Trudi Webster (Conservation Science Advisor)

Process to date

• 1. Gathering of Resource material from:
• DOC report Review of population information (Ellenberg & Mattern, 2012)
• Penguin Book Chapter (Seddon et al., 2013)
• Yellow-eyed Penguin Stock-Take Report – He pūrongo mō te Hoiho (Lewis, McKinlay,

Murray & Edge-Hill, 2016)

• DOC CSP report on hoiho diet (Mattern & Ellenberg, 2018)
• The pathway ahead for hoiho – Te ara whakamua (Webster, 2018)
• 2. Workshop to development interagency strategic direction
• 3. Prioritisation of immediate recommendations for the 18/19 breeding season
• 4. Technical meetings (fisheries, vets)
• 5. Fisheries work stream (CSP & FNZ)
• 6. Action plans being developed for this hoiho breeding season (e.g. disease)

Overarching strategy to set boundaries of Threat Management and Recovery Plan

5-year objective: The decline of the hoiho population is halted. 20-year high-level objectives:

• 1. The hoiho population is increasing in both the Northern*

and Southern** populations.

• 2. The threat status of the hoiho will improve within the

next 20 years. 100-year vision: To work in partnership to ensure self-sustaining, thriving hoiho.

* Northern = populations on mainland NZ, Stewart Island |Rakiura and outliers ** Southern = populations in the Subantarctic islands

0-5-year objectives

• Monitoring/evaluation: Effective monitoring to provide the state/trend info to inform progress

towards achieving objectives.

• Human behaviour: Minimising damaging human interactions and behaviours, whilst maximising

positive human appreciation.

• Biology threats: Understand the relative levels of the risk of threats for the Northern and

Southern populations.

• Communication: Stakeholders stay well informed about their part in hoiho recovery and

understand / deliver required actions.

• Intervention: Designs optimal interventions.
• Industry: Other users of coastal marine environment are not contributing to hoiho decline

(fisheries, tourism, farming).

• Information: Weaving together knowledge to enhance the mauri of hoiho (biology, ecology,

threats, etc.).

Hoiho Threat Management and Recovery ry Pla lan development

• This high-level strategy will aim to provide direction for the various work underway

(both internal and external to our four partners), while not attempting to capture everything in one place.

• Is unlikely to be a one stop report or book as was used for the original Hoiho

Recovery Plan 2000-2025.

• Will likely involve the development of a high-level strategy to guide a series of

action plans or topic specific documents or processes, using the strategic direction the HGG and HTG have agreed upon.

• However the detail of what this will look like is still being determined and in the

meantime we are focusing on immediate actions for the 18/19 breeding season.

• The CSP and Fisheries Programme have their own statutory cycles and so will need

to maintain that distinction from other processes.

THEMES

IMMEDIATE RECOMMENDATIONS

Overarching strategy Fisheries Programme

Monitoring fisheries Bycatch quantification and mitigation Effective liaison Investigate transitioning fisheries Dispensation Risk modelling

Data Management Programme

Identification of knowledge gaps Monitoring data management

Habitat Management Programme

Habitat degradation Terrestrial predation Visitor impacts

Bird Management Programme

Nest monitoring Bird monitoring Rehabilitation and handling Disease response

Māori Perspectives / Tikanga Adaptive Management Framework

EXAMPLES

Theme: Fisheries Programme: : (Fisheries NZ)

Project Title Due date / status SEA2017-24 Review of hoiho population monitoring data for use in risk assessments Early August PRO2017-06 Characterisation of yellow-eyed penguin/fishing interactions Presentation to AEWG in September SEA2017-18 Yellow eyed penguin overlap with and risk from setnet fishing Presentation to AEWG in September PSB2018-14 Development and testing of mitigation techniques to reduce penguin captures in setnets Out for tender currently PSB2018-13 Multi-threat risk assessment for yellow-eyed penguin Awaiting results from SEA2017-24 before contracting

Theme: Fisheries Programme: : (CSP work)

Project Key Objectives Completion Observing commercial fisheries Monitoring key setnet fisheries across the hoiho range (60- 65% coverage) 30 June 2019 Trialing innovative Electronic Monitoring (EM) systems Trialing innovative EM systems designed specifically for small vessels to assess their ability to measure protected species interactions 30 June 2020 Hoiho population and tracking project To collect information on key aspects of biology and foraging of hoiho 30 June 2020 Fisheries Protected Species Liaison Providing expertise to assist fleets to reduces their risks of interactions with protected species 30 June 2020 Spatial management options Designing options for quantitatively assessable spatial and temporal management 30 June 2019

Theme: Data Management

• On-going work to improve data collection and curation standards to support regional

data-gathering exercises.

• Ensure that data collection for research purposes meets scientific design principles.

Theme: Bird Management

• Develop action plans for:
• Unexplained mortality events
• Avian malaria
• Diphtheric stomatitis
• Need to support existing field programmes that underpin management

Theme: Habitat Management

• Ongoing support to site managers and community groups on the ground.
• Examples of ongoing work include:
• erosion issues
• management of terrestrial predators
• uncontrolled tourism
• impact of dogs

Community engagement

The road so far

• Annual Symposium presentations
• Input into the 2016 Stocktake
• Contributions to workshops (e.g. disease

workshops)

• CSP processes
• Fisheries NZ processes

Future engagement opportunities

• Local discussions around immediate short

term action.s

• Long-term consultation once the strategic

work to develop a Threat Management and Recovery Plan has been completed.

• Formal engagement through the annual

Conservation Services Programme process.

• Formal engagement through the Aquatic

Environment Working Group annual process.

Webpage for threat management and recovery plan for hoiho

www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/penguins/yellow-eyed-penguin-hoiho/hoiho-threat- management-and-recovery-plan/

• NB: Although this is a DOC website it links

to all Partners.

• Provides a summary of the governance

and technical groups, strategic direction, and the road thus far.

• Updates will posted to the webpage as

they come available.

• Opportunities to input will be posted on
• ur webpage.
• We are here today to talk further about

this work.

Hoiho, Enderby Island |2016 Freydis Hjorvarsdottir | DOC