Number of Ministry of Fisheries catch events for commercial marine species in New Zealand's EEZ, October 1989–February 2009.

Distribution of Benthic Protection Areas, established in 2007, and seamount closures.

EAUC, East Auckland Current; ECC, East Cape Current; NCC, North Cape Current; SC, Southland Current; WE, Wairarapa Eddy; DWBC, Deep Western Boundary Current.

The marine-biodiversity and data-management challenge in the Pacific Ocean―size of EEZs in relation to population base and land area.

Comparison of numbers of species of Animalia in the New Zealand EEZ and the ERMS region.

Relative proportions of depth ranges in the New Zealand region.

NIWA data on seamount features in the New Zealand EEZ and wider region.

Bathymetric contours indicate 250, 1,000, 2,500, and 5000 m. The solid white line shows the boundary of the New Zealand EEZ, the solid black line the EEZs of Australia and...

Location and depth of 30,518 bottom trawls in the NIWA Trawl Database, 1961–2009 recording the occurrences of 634 species of New Zealand fish and squid.

Diversity of marine species found in the New Zealand region.

The marine-biodiversity assessment of New Zealand (Aotearoa as known to Māori) is confined to the 200 nautical-mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone, which, at 4.2...