Southern Seabird Solutions Trust workshop hears of three new mitigation devices/updated

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At the Southern Seabird Solutions Trust’s international workshop held last month in New Zealand (click here for earlier news item) three new bycatch mitigation devices were described: Australia’s Smart Hook, the Chilean Longline or Cachalotera and the New Zealand-developed Kiwi Longline Setting Tunnel. 

Read about these devices at http://www.southernseabirds.org/thumbs_up.

Guest speakers at the workshop included Marco Favero, Chair of the ACAP Advisory Committee, John Croxall, Chair of BirdLife International's Global Seabird Programme and Carlos Moreno of the Universidad Austral de Chile.

The full report of the workshop will be posted to http://www.southernseabirds.org when completed.

In the meantime a short review of the workshop is included in the latest  Bycatch Communication Network Newsletter (No. 11, Nov-Dec 2008, pp. 9-10). To receive the BCNN contact the Editor, Emma Bradshaw at Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo..

 John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer.  Posted 5 December 2008, updated 8 December 2008.

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