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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 threat management and recovery plan mandated under the Conservation and Fisheries Acts" with the additional context of working with our Treaty Partner. • Hoiho Governance Group (HGG) • Sets the strategic direction for hoiho recovery including: • Hoiho Technical Group (HTG) • the shared recovery vision, goals and • Lead the development of a new and fit- timeframes for-purpose hoiho recovery strategy • collective agreement about priorities • Identify immediate recommendations • Maintain oversight and provide including developing operational action accountability of the overall hoiho plans recovery programme • Provide relevant and robust technical and • Sets the work programme for the HTG strategic advice • Identify knowledge gaps to advance hoiho recovery Site managers have confidence to deliver conservation of hoiho

Hoiho Governance Group Members: Stuart Anderson (Director Fisheries Management) 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) Lian Butcher (Director Aquatic) Department of Conservation: Ngāi Tahu: Yvette Couch-Lewis (Hoiho species recovery representative) Fisheries NZ Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust: Eric Shelton (Trust Board Chair) and Sue Murray (General Manager) Sponsors: 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 100-year vision: To work in partnership to ensure self-sustaining, thriving hoiho. 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. 5-year objective: The decline of the hoiho population is halted. * 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.

IMMEDIATE RECOMMENDATIONS Overarching strategy Māori Perspectives / Tikanga Adaptive Management Framework Fisheries Bird Management Habitat Management Data Management THEMES Programme Programme Programme Programme EXAMPLES Monitoring fisheries Nest monitoring Habitat degradation Identification of knowledge gaps Bycatch quantification and mitigation Bird monitoring Terrestrial predation Monitoring data management Effective liaison Rehabilitation and handling Visitor impacts Disease response Investigate transitioning fisheries Dispensation Risk modelling

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

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

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 Future engagement opportunitie s • Annual Symposium presentations • Local discussions around immediate short term action.s • Input into the 2016 Stocktake • Long-term consultation once the strategic • Contributions to workshops (e.g. disease work to develop a Threat Management and workshops) Recovery Plan has been completed. • CSP processes • Formal engagement through the annual • Fisheries NZ processes Conservation Services Programme process. • Formal engagement through the Aquatic Environment Working Group annual process.