The data set is currenlty supplied by Stephen Beatson, Senior Fisheries Analyst, Aquaculture & Fisheries Permitting. Nelson.

The Marine Farms layer is a collection of Marine Farm data from various sources, to start with.

This includes marine farms were collected by Hamish Rennie as part of a PHD in2004; these were digitised from the SO plans used in the applications for permits. Further collection was carried out by OmniLink on behalf of the Ministry of Fisheries and was completed in March 2007 as follows:“In 2006 the Ministry of Fisheries (MFish) commissioned Omnilink Ltd to survey NewZealand local government agencies (city, district and regional councils) on the availability of coastal data that is maintained in electronic form via a geographic information system (GIS). Following the survey, MFish contracted OmniLink tocollect data from each council and collate into a national dataset.”Some marine farms have been added from further direct contact with the respective councils.

NOTE: Councils may collect their data differently and assign different attributeswhich can cause some farms to be matched with varying levels of accuracy.

Methods of data capture include:

1. Digitised from aerial photography.

2. Plotted from coordinates, supplied by permit holder or from council records.

3. Digitised from council records.

Local or regional council name Method of data capture: Environment Waikato Digitised from aerial photography. Tasman district council UnknownNorthland district council Unknown. Marlborough district council Unknown. Nelson City council Unknown. Environment Bay of Plenty Unknown.

Attributes:Field name Definition

MFISH_ID Unique ID for MFish purposesCouncil Abbreviated council code as described below

Council_Poly_ID Identifier in MDC database

CP_ID Regional Council coastal permit applicationnumber

MAF_Permit As issued by MAF

Farm_ID Identifier for a farm made up of several lotsthat may have different permit numbersLot_number Number of each lot within a farm

Current_Status Active or inactive – are there other values

Approval_category As described below

Expiry_date Coastal permit expiry date

Created_by Initial person responsible for polygon andassociated attributes

Created_Date initial created dateLocation_status

Source of area polygon

Modified_by Person responsible for last modification

Modified_date When the last modification was carried out

Lot_Area Calculated area of this lot (ha)

FMA Fisheries Management area.

Species Species farmed by species code

Structure_type Type of structure the species is farmed on.

Council abbreviations:HBRC= Hawke's Bay Regional Council NRC= Northland Regional CouncilARC=Auckland Regional CouncilWRC= Waikato Regional CouncilMDC= Marlborough District CouncilTDC= Tasman District CouncilSRC= Southland Regional CouncilWTCR= West Coast Regional CouncilBOPRC= Bay of Plenty Regional CouncilCRC= Canterbury Regional CouncilWGTRC= Wellington Regional CouncilCIRC= Chatham Islands Council

Structure Types:Intertidal racksLonglinesFishcagesApproval_categoryApproved : has both a current coastal permit and if necessary a fisheries permit,marine farm licence or marine farm lease.Declined : coastal permit was declined.

Ministry Fisheries reservation : lot was declined by MAF on the basis of an undueadverse effect on fishing.

Closed : coastal permit application was closed by the Council before a decision wasmade.

Withdrawn : coastal permit application was withdrawn by the applicant before adecision was made.Expired/Surrendered : an approved coastal permit was surrendered or not renewedoften when replaced with another coastal permit.

Forfeited/Lapsed : a marine farm licence or lease was relinquished or not renewed.

Processing : waiting for a coastal permit decision or a MAF aquaculture decision

Processing – approved and appealed : an approved coastal permit decision hasbeen appealed and is awaiting outcome.

Processing – declined and appealed : a declined coastal permit decision has beenappealed and is awaiting outcome

Processing – Judicial review of MAF aquaculture decisionMatchingUsing a list supplied by the Ministry of Fisheries Aquaculture unit and the marineFarm number a marine farm was assigned as a “match” or “non match”. First usingautomated matching then using manual matching as follows:

Duplicates were removed in the instance of duplicate marine farm number andspatial location overlap and where there was an exact spatial overlap. NOTE: there are some duplicate fields in this table but this has been preserved to retain the any links the the spatial allocations process.