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title: "Seabird identification and bycatch mitigation: a list of field manuals and guides/UPDATED"
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# Seabird identification and bycatch mitigation: a list of field manuals and guides/UPDATED

  Over the last decade or so, a number of publications, suitable for use aboard fishing vessels, has been produced to aid in identifying seabirds caught on longlines and in reducing seabird bycatch in longline fisheries.  A bibliographic list follows.

  Please e-mail [John.Cooper@acap.aq](mailto:John.Cooper@acap.aq)  with bibliographic details of manuals and guides to add to the list.

 

Biswell, Shelly F. 2007.  *A Fisher's Guide to New Zealand Seabirds*. [Wellington]: Department of Conservation.  55 pp.  [http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/conservation/marine-and-coastal/fishing/fishers-guide-to-new-zealand-seabirds.pdf](http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/conservation/marine-and-coastal/fishing/fishers-guide-to-new-zealand-seabirds.pdf).

  Brothers, Nigel [1990s].  *Catching Fish not Birds.  A Guide to Improving your Longline Fishing Efficiency*.  [Hobart]: Parks & Wildlife Service Tasmania.  73 pp.  ISBN 0 7246 4282 X

  Brothers, Nigel & Hoy, Dawn [1990s].  *Longline Fishing Dollars and Sense.  Catching Fish not Birds using Bottom Set or Mid Water Set Longlines. **Pesca de Palangreros los Dolares y en Sentido Comun.  Capturando Peces en Vez de Aves Marinas usando Palangreros de Profundidad*.  80 pp.   Stanley: Consolidated Fisheries Ltd.  ISBN 0 7242 4538 8.  A Chinese version was published in 1998.

  CCAMLR 1996.  *Fish the Sea Not the Sky.  How to Avoid by-catch of Seabirds when Fishing with Bottom Longlines*.  Hobart: Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. 46 pp.  Also published in French, Russian and Spanish.

  Onley, Derek & Bartle, Sandy 1999.  *Identification of Seabirds in the Southern Ocean.   A Guide for Scientific Observers aboard Fishing Vessels.* Wellington: Te Papa Press & Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.  81 pp.  ISBN 0 909010 47 1.  Also published in French, Russian and Spanish.

  Petersen, Samantha & Honig, Maria [2000s]. *A Practical Guide to Understanding & Reducing Vulnerable Bycatch.  Keeping our Endangered Marine Life off the Hook*.  [Cape Town]: WWF South Africa & BirdLife South Africa.  103 pp. + illustrations.

 

 *Posted by John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 13 January 2009, upadted 21 January 2009*