Nokome Bentley
nbentley@trophia.com
Nokome completed a Bachelor of Science at James Cook University, Australia majoring in marine biology. In 1992 he completed a Graduate Diploma in Fisheries Science at the Australian Maritime College.  Since then Nokome has held positions at various research institutions in Australia. 

He founded Trophia Ltd in 1996 and since this time has completed fisheries projects in a range of areas from data collection to policy advice, including stock assessment models for rock lobster and barracouta fisheries in New Zealand.

He has also developed a spatial model of the snapper fishery in Northern New Zealand t o assess the feasibility of evaluation spatial closures as a fisheries management tool. At present the main focus of his work is stock assessment modelling and software development. He is based in Kaikoura, New Zealand.
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Stock Assessment and client Reports

Bentley, N. in prep: Deriving an index of vulnerable biomass from catch and effort data from rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) fisheries. New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report .

Bentley, N. in prep: An audit of catch and effort data from the Chatham Islands (CRA6) rock lobster fishery.

Bentley, N., Breen, P. A., Starr, P. J., & Kendrick, T. H. in prep: Assessment of the CRA3 and NSS stock of red rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) for 2000. New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report.

Bentley, N., Breen, P. A., Starr, P. J., & Sykes, D. R. in prep: Development and evaluation of decision rules for management of New Zealand rock lobster stocks. New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report .

Bentley, N., Davies, C. R., McNeill, S. E., & Davies, N. M. in prep: A framework for assessing the use of spatial closures as a fisheries management tool. Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report .

Bentley, N., Davies, N. M., & McNeill, S. E. in prep: A spatially explicit model of the SNA1 fishery. New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report.

Bentley, N., McNeill, S. E., Davies, N. M., & Davies, C. R. in prep: An example of assessing spatial closures as a fisheries management tool. New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report .

Bentley, N., Starr, P. J., & Breen, P. A. in prep: Estimating an optimal catch sampling regime for New Zealand rock lobster fisheries. N ew Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report .

Bentley, N. and Starr, P.J. in prep: An examination of stock definitions for the New Zealand rock lobster fishery.

Breen, P. A, Starr, P. J., Bentley, N. in press: Assessment of the NSN and NSC stocks of red rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) for 1999.  New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report .

Starr, P. J. and Bentley, N. in press: Assessment of the NSS stock of red rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) for 1999.  New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report.

Starr, P. J., Bentley, N. and Maunder, M., (1999) Assessment of the NSN and NSS stocks of red rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) for 1998. New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Research Document. 99/34.

Bentley, N., (1999) Fishing for solutions: can the trade in live food fish in South East Asia be managed?. TRAFFIC South East Asia , Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

Bentley, N., (1998) An overview of the exploitation, trade and management of corals in Indonesia. TRAFFIC Bulletin , 17 (2): 67-78.

Worthington, D.G., Andrew, N.L., and Bentley, N., (1998) Improved indices of catch rate in the fishery for blacklip abalone, Haliotis rubra, in New South Wales, Australia. Fisheries Research, 36 : 87-97.

Bentley, N., (1996) Australia In: Sant, G. and Hayes, E. (eds.), The Oceania region's harvest, trade and management of sharks and other cartilagenous fish: an overview. T RAFFIC Oceania , Sydney, Australia.

Bentley, N., (1996) Indonesia. In: Hing Keong, C. (ed), An overview of shark trade in selected countries in South East Asia. TRAFFIC South East Asia , Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

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