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EEL2022-01 Recruitment of freshwater eels

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Tender Closed
RFx ID : 25899098
Tender Name : EEL2022-01 Recruitment of freshwater eels
Reference # : C - EEL2022-01 (406820) Restricted Tender
Open Date : Friday, 3 June 2022 2:00 PM (Pacific/Auckland UTC+12:00)
Close Date  : Monday, 20 June 2022 2:00 PM (Pacific/Auckland UTC+12:00)
Department/Business Unit : Fisheries New Zealand
Tender Type : Request for Proposals (RFP)
Tender Coverage : Sole Agency  [?]
Categories :
  • 70000000 - Farming and Fishing and Forestry and Wildlife Contracting Services
Regions:
  • New Zealand
Exemption Reason : 9. Secondary procurement
Required Pre-qualifications : None
Contact : Chloe Wilson
04 831 3441
Alternate Physical Delivery Address  :
Alternate Physical Fax Number  :
Agency Address : NEW ZEALAND
Overview

Overall Objective:

To monitor the recruitment of juvenile eels.


Specific Objectives:

1. To contribute to a time series of data to monitor the relative recruitment of shortfin and longfin eels by co-ordinating to specific standards the collection of data on abundance, timing of migration, and species composition of elver runs at six key locations: Wairua Falls, Karapiro, Matahina, Patea, Roxburgh or Waitaki, and Arnold for the elver migrations in 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25.
2. To co-ordinate and analyse data from all secondary dam sites where catch and transfer of eels is undertaken.
3. To describe the length distribution of longfin and shortfin elvers during the 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25 migration seasons at the key locations and to collect otoliths from both species at these sites to determine age composition of elvers present each season.
4. To age otoliths from key sites for all years listed in Specific Objective 3.
5. To investigate the correlation between elver movement and environmental factors such as water temperature and flow.
6. Broader outcomes.

RFx Outcome

This tender has been awarded.

  • National Institute of Water and Atmosphere Research Ltd - 301 Evans Bay Parade, Wellington, 6021, NEW ZEALAND

Award Date: Friday, 29 July 2022 (Pacific/Auckland UTC+12:00)
Date RFx was completed/updated: Friday, 29 July 2022 2:46 PM (Pacific/Auckland UTC+12:00)


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