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The Southern Seabird Solutions Trust promotes the adoption of fishing practices that avoid the mortality of southern hemisphere seabirds.  The Trust  has published its 10th Newsletter - for August 2008.  Find it at http://www.southernseabirds.org/August_2008_Newsletter.

An extract follows:

"Since 2002, the Trust has been working with fishermen, the fishing industry, governments and NGOs to reduce seabird by-catch in southern hemisphere fisheries.  Through skipper exchanges, workshops, educational resources and other activities we have focused our energies on working with fishermen – because we believe that fishermen hold the key to reducing seabird by-catch."

The Trust will hold a two-day meeting from 10-11 November 2008 in Nelson,New Zealand to consider where and how it can make the biggest contribution to solving seabird by-catch over the next five years both domestically and internationally.

Guest speakers at the event will include Professor John Croxall, Chair of BirdLife International's Global Seabird Programme, and Professor Carlos Moreno, Universidad Austral de Chile, who is a leader in Chile's efforts to reduce seabird by-catch.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 27 August 2008