Kingfish Monitoring Project
Information on the size and age of yellowtail kingfish from North Cape to Cape Runaway is being collected to monitor the current state of the stock. Sunfish Charters is one of the top kingfish skippers and fishers recruited to measure all the kingfish we catch over 75 cm in the Bay of Plenty.
Yellowtail kingfish is a high value recreational species widely distributed in temperate southern hemisphere and temperate north Pacific waters. Most of the IGFA world records for southern yellowtail are held by fish caught in