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title: "Planning is everything; New Zealand’s Conservation Services Programme releases its annual plan"
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# Planning is everything; New Zealand’s Conservation Services Programme releases its annual plan

![Black Petrel flying 3 Kirk Zufelt](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/B/Black/Black_Petrel_flying_3_Kirk_Zufelt.jpeg)*The CSP's Annual Plan for 2022/23 includes population monitoring of the ACAP-listed Black Petrel (pictured); photograph by Kirk Zufelt*

 New Zealand’s Conservation Services Programme (CSP) has released its 2022/23 Annual Plan. The CSP operates under the administration of the Department of Conservation with the vision that, “commercial fishing is undertaken in a manner that does not compromise the protection and recovery of protected species in New Zealand fisheries waters”.

 The plan provides a comprehensive summary of upcoming and ongoing research projects, their objectives and expected costs. It is divided into three focus areas:

 
- **Interaction Projects (section 2)**: the Observer Programme and seabird identification programmes.
- **Population Projects (section 3)**: a number of population and demographic studies of albatrosses endemic to New Zealand, monitoring of the Black Petrel and Flesh-footed Shearwater, and research into foraging and diving habits of the Westland Petrel.
- **Mitigation Projects (section 4)**: the Protected Species Liaison Project Officer Programme, the use and effectiveness of various mitigation measures and a project focussed on understanding drivers and barriers to the implementation of mitigation measures by small vessel bottom longline vessels.

 The 2022/23 Annual Plan is available at the [Department of Conservation’s](https://www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/conservation-services-programme/csp-plans/current-csp-annual-plan/) website, or download [here](https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/conservation/marine-and-coastal/marine-conservation-services/plans/final-csp-annual-plan-2022-23.pdf).

 *Posted 29 August 2022*