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title: "An Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross is recaptured on land carrying a home-made band from an Indonesian longliner"
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# An Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross is recaptured on land carrying a home-made band from an Indonesian longliner

Jean-Baptiste Thiebot ([Centre d’Études Biologiques de Chizé](http://www.cebc.cnrs.fr/), Villiers-en-bois, France) and colleagues have written in the journal *[Polar Biology](http://link.springer.com/journal/300) *on the curious case of recapturing an albatross at its [Amsterdam Island](http://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1429-acap-breeding-sites-no-37-ileamsterdam-only-home-of-the-amsterdam-albatross?lang=en-GB) breeding site with a message added to its leg by a longliner at sea.

 The paper’s abstract follows:

 “Commercial fisheries currently pose a serious threat at sea to the conservation of a number of pelagic seabirds.  However, these interactions are complex, and reports on population-specific bycatch in the high seas are scarce.  Here we report the case of an Indian yellow-nosed albatross *Thalassarche carteri* re-sighted on Amsterdam Island after an apparent capture by an Indonesian long-liner, as indicated by a message attached to the bird.  This record demonstrates that Amsterdam birds may interact with long-liners indeed, at least during winter, and that such interactions are not systematically lethal.  We suggest that bycatch sub-lethal effects should be investigated at colonies with high risks of individual capture at sea.”

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/I/Indian_Yellow_nosed_Albatross_Prince_Edward_Island4_by_Peter_Ryan.jpg)

 Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross, photograph by Peter Ryan

 **Reference:**

 Thiebot, J.-B., Demy, J., Marteau, C. & Weimerskirch, H. 2015.  The rime of the modern mariner: evidence for capture of yellow-nosed albatross from Amsterdam Island in Indian Ocean longline fisheries.  [*Polar Biology* DOI 10.1007/s00300-015-1680-5](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-015-1680-5).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 21 March 2015*