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U.S. and International Seabird Bycatch Reduction Efforts

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Avoidance of Seabird Incidental Take

Red Legged Kittiwakes. Photo: Josh Keaton, NMFS
Red Legged Kittiwakes. Photo: Josh Keaton, NMFS
  • Washington Sea Grant - Initiatives for seabird bycatch reduction

  • American Bird Conservancy: Mortality Threats to Birds - Longline Fishing

  • Australian Antarctic Division: Seabird Mortality in Longline Fisheries

  • Australia's Threat Abatement Plan:
        The Incidental Catch of Seabirds During Oceanic Longline Fishing

  • Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)

  • Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF):
      Circumpolar Seabird Working Group (CSWG)

  • Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation's (FAO):
        International Plan of Action for Reducing Incidental Catch of Seabirds in Longline Fisheries

  • New Zealand Trawl Industry Newsletter on Avoiding Seabird Interactions

  • International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) and the Pacific halibut fishery

  • North American Waterbird Conservation Plan (NACWCP)

  • Seabird Bycatch Email Listserv: an information exchange for the fishing industry, conservationists, researchers, and fisheries and wildlife managers



    • thick billed murres. Photo: Josh Keaton, NMFS
    Thick billed murres. Photo: Josh Keaton, NMFS

    Albatross and Other Seabirds

  • USFWS Annual Reports of Breeding Status and Population Trends of Seabirds in Alaska

  • USFWS Pacific Region's Seabird Conservation Plan

  • The Albatross Project (see link for Short-tailed Albatross Satellite Tagging Study)

  • Short-tailed Albatross Photos by Dr. Hiroshi Hasegawa

  • Tracking Ocean Wanderers: The Global Distribution of Albatrosses and Petrels, November 2004 report by Birdlife International

  • Regional Fisheries Management Organisations

  • Albatross Wanderings, Carl Safina, National Audubon Society (contains reference to bycatch reduction efforts in Alaska)

  • Alaska Natural Heritage Program: Procellariiformes Tracking List and Status Reports

  • The Albatross Project: Satellite telemetry research

  • The Antarctica Project: Southern Ocean albatrosses

  • Australian Antarctic Program: (search for "albatross")

  • Endangered Species: (click on link to Short-tailed Albatross)

  • IPHC Survey: Short-tailed Albatross Sightings

  • NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) Bird Site

  • The Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology: Albatross research

  • Office of Migratory Bird Management;
      U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

  • Seabirds in Alaska (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

  • USFWS' North America Waterbird Conservation Plan

  • Seabird and Forage Fish Research (USGS)

  • USFWS Birds of Conservation Concern, 2002

  • USFWS's Short-tailed Albatross Encounter Form



    • Other NMFS Seabird Bycatch Websites

  • National Bycatch Issues - Bycatch of fishery resources, marine mammals, sea turtles and seabirds

  • Hawaii Longline Fisheries and Seabird Bycatch -
        NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIAO)


    • Auklets. Photo: Josh Keaton
    Crested auklets. Photo: Josh Keaton, NMFS

    Organizations

  • Alaska SeaLife Center

  • The American Ornithologist's Union

  • Australian Antarctic Division

  • BirdLife International--Global Seabird Conservation Program

  • National Fisheries Institute: Longline fisheries

  • Pacific Seabird Group

  • Southern Seabird Solutions Trust

  • World Conservation Union



    • *If there are other websites you think should be added to this list, please send an e-mail to: alaska.webmaster@noaa.gov.