SUMMARY

SUMMARY

IDENTIFICATION

SCIENTIFIC NAME(s)

Rexea solandri

SPECIES NAME(s)

Silver gemfish

COMMON NAMES

Common gemfish, Southern kingfish

Gemfish (Rexea solandri) are a bottom dwelling fish which inhabitat deep water off the New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmanian coasts. Generally found in large schools at depths of 100 - 800 metres. Gemfish inhabit oceanic continental shelf and upper slope waters, and are distributed throughout southern Australian and New Zealand waters. The eastern Australian population is genetically different to the western Australian population, and different to the two populations of gemfish found in New Zealand waters (Wilson et al. 2010).

There are considered to be two biologically distinct stocks of Gemfish in Australia—an eastern and a western biological stock—separated by a boundary at the western end of Bass Strait1. Studies suggest that there are no genetic differences between Gemfish in eastern Australia and New Zealand. For the purposes of management and assessment, the eastern Australian population is treated as a single biological stock, independent of the New Zealand population (Colgan and Paxton 1997).


ANALYSIS

No related analysis

SCORES

Management Quality:

Management Strategy:

≥ 8

Managers Compliance:

10.0

Fishers Compliance:

10.0