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title: "Uruguay reports on its mitigation research to reduce the mortality of albatrosses and petrels from long-line fishing"
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# Uruguay reports on its mitigation research to reduce the mortality of albatrosses and petrels from long-line fishing

The latest issue (No. 8 of March 2011) of *Boletín Atlántico Sur*, the bulletin of Proyecto Albatros y Petreles - Uruguay is now available on-line at [http://www.cicmar.org.uy/proyectos/pap/bas](http://www.cicmar.org.uy/proyectos/pap/bas).

 The 12-page bulletin is written in Spanish but the articles carry English summaries.  Two articles report on Uruguayan research to reduce the mortality of albatrosses and petrels caught on long-line hooks.  The first article is entitled "La línea espantapájaros: resultados de una investigación en palangreros uruguayos" and shows that the use of bird-scaring streamer ‘tori' lines reduced seabird mortality to zero on eight fishing trips.

 The second article "La cápsula de calado submarino: una invención para resolver la captura incidental de aves marinas en palangre pelágico" reports on at-sea trials of an under-water setting capsule designed to take the baited hooks out of the reach of seabirds.  This work is a collaborative effort with the [Australian Antarctic Division](http://www.antarctica.gov.au). and [Amerro Engineering](http://www.amerro.com.au/) along with the Uruguayan National Directorate of Aquatic Resources (La Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos; [DINARA](http://www.dinara.gub.uy/web_dinara/)).

 Three field trips were undertaken in Uruguayan waters over September-October 2010 on the pelagic long-liner F/V *Qian Lian 2*and gave promising results relating to the applicability of the capsule to pelagic long-line fisheries worldwide.  The design of the under-water capsule has previously won its Australian inventors (Phil Ashworth and Graham Robertson) a prestigious award from the [WWF International Smart Gear Competition](http://www.smartgear.org) ([click here](https://acap.aq/2009-news-archive/australian-team-wins-smart-gear-competition-with-underwater-bait-launcher)).

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Mitigation/Fact_Sheet_01_Fig1.jpg)

 Back-numbers of *Boletín Atlántico Sur *are also available at the same web site.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 3 April 2012*