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title: "Albatross and fisheries mortality papers to be presented at the Pacific Seabird Group meeting next month in Hawaii"
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# Albatross and fisheries mortality papers to be presented at the Pacific Seabird Group meeting next month in Hawaii

The [38th Annual Meeting](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/index.php?f=meeting&t=Annual Meeting&s=1) of the [Pacific Seabird Group](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/index.php?f=index&t=Home&s=1) will be held in Turtle Bay, Haleiwa,Oahu, Hawaii, USA over 7-10 February 2012.  The [programme](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/2012mtg/PSG2012.DailyOverview.pdf) and [abstracts](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/2012mtg/PSG2012.Abstracts.pdf) for the meeting are now available on-line.

 Listed here by title and authors are those papers to be presented that deal with albatrosses (primarily the three Northern Pacific albatrosses *Phoebastria* spp.) and with seabird mortality in fisheries that impact ACAP-listed species.

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/Laysan Albatross1 by James Lloyd.jpg)  
Laysan Albatross.  Photograph by James Lloyd

 **Haruko Ando, Lindsay Young, Maura Naughton, Hajime Suzuki, Tomohiro Deguchi & Yuji Isagi**.  Population genetic structure of the Black-footed Albatross in North Pacific  
  
**Melinda Conners & Scott Shaffer**.  Working the night shift: a fine-scale study of the diurnal/nocturnal foraging behavior of two Hawaiian albatrosses  
  
**Shannon Fitzgerald and Kimberly Dietrich.** Seabird bycatch in Alaska trawl fisheries - a comparison of observer sampling protocols  
  
**Troy Guy, Sarah Jennings, Robert Suryan, Edward Melvin & Marlene Bellman.** Albatross-fishery overlap in the U.S. west coast groundfish fisheries  
  
**Robert Henry, Elliot Hazen, Michelle Kappes, Bernie Tershy, Dave Foley, Scott Shaffer, Yann Tremblay, Daniel Costa, María Félix & Donald Croll.** From subtropical to eastern boundary: successful long distance breeding range expansion of a top marine consumer the Laysan Albatross (*Phoebastria immutabilis*)  
  
**David Hyrenbach, Andrew Titmus, Michelle Hester, Cynthia Vanderlip, Chih-Wei Chang & Travis Wahl.** Boluses reveal species-specific and colony-based differences in plastic ingestion by Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses  
  
**Nobuhiro Katsumata, Noriyosi Sato, Kosuke Yokota, Takashi Uehara, Tatsuki Oshima, Ippei Fusejima, Kotaro Yokawa & Hiroshi Minami.** Effectiveness of double-weighted branchlines for reducing on seabird bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries off Chile  
  
**John Klavitter, Greg Schubert, Leona Laniawe & Pete Leary.** Historical account of Short-tailed Albatrosses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge including a successful social attraction project where a chick successfully fledged during the 2010-11 breeding season  
  
**Ellen Lance & Christopher Noyles.** Using satellite imagery to monitor nesting Short-tailed Albatross  
  
**D.F. Luers**.  Accounting for yearly variation in albatross bycatch in the deep-set Hawaii pelagic longline fishery  
  
**Edward Melvin & Troy Guy.** Best-practice seabird bycatch mitigation for pelagic longline fisheries  
  
**Daisuke Ochi, Takuto Kimura, Ikuo Hasigaya, Tatsuki Oshima, Hiroshi Minami, Kotaro Yokawa & Ippei Fusejima.** Search and fish: seabirds as an ecological indicator of schooling tunas for Japanese pole-and-line fisheries in the western central Pacific Ocean  
  
**Robert Suryan & Karen Courtot**.  Albatross post-breeding "hotspots": optimal foraging areas or molting areas...or both?  
  
**Hajime Suzuki, Kazuo Horikoshi, Hayato Chiba, Jyuko Ando, Kazuto Kawakami & Teturo Sasaki**.  The status and conservation of seabirds in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan  [albatrosses *Phoebastria*spp.]  
  
**Andrew Titmus, Michelle Hester, Pamela Michael, Josh Adams, Cynthia Vanderlip & David Hyrenbach.** A north western Pacific metric of pelagic marine debris: plastic ingestion by Black-footed Albatross from Kure Atoll, Hawai'i  
  
**Stacy Vander Pol, Colleen Bryan, Angela Hansen, Aaron Hebshi, Brenda Jensen, Frances Nilsen, Rebecca Pugh, David Roseneau & Lindsay Young**.  Mercury and organic contaminants in Laysan Albatross (*Phoebastria immutabilis*) eggs collected from Hawai'i in 2010  
  
**William Walker, Robert Pitman & Lisa Balance**.  Wanted: dead or alive? Hawaiian albatrosses feed mainly by scavenging on mesopelagic cephalopods  
  
**William Walker & Shannon Fitzgerald.** Preliminary results on the diets of Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses and the use of fisheries by-caught marine birds in investigations of natural feeding strategy  
  
**Lindsay Young, Eric VanderWerf, Michael Lohr, Andrew Titmus & Christopher Miller**.  A story of predation, eradication and recovery at one of Oahu's largest seabird colonies: Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve.  [Laysan Albatross *Phoebastria immutabilis*]

 It is planned to post news stories on some of these papers after they have been presented.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 23 January 2012*