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title: "Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting 2010: abstracts of papers on ACAP-listed albatrosses available on-line"
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# Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting 2010: abstracts of papers on ACAP-listed albatrosses available on-line

The 37th Annual Meeting of the [Pacific Seabird Group](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org) was held in Long Beach, California, USA in February 2010.  Abstracts of presentations are now available [on-line](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/downloads/PSG2010_Abstracts.pdf).  Titles and authors of 14 presentations that dealt with ACAP-listed albatrosses and "potential candidate" shearwater species are listed below.

 Vessel-specific seabird bycatch in Alaska demersal longline groundfish fisheries, 2004-2007.  Kim Dietrich & Shannon Fitzgerald

 A pilot project on seabird interactions with paravane gear on an Alaskan groundfish trawl catcher processor.  Shannon Fitzgerald, Todd Loomis & Jeff Pesta.  Black-footed Albatross *Phoebastria nigripes*

 Influence of water masses on the distribution and abundance of seabirds in the northeastern Chukchi Sea.  Adrian Gall, Robert Day & Caryn Rea.  Short-tailed Shearwater *Puffinus tenuirostris*

 Diving behavior of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters.  Julia Gleichman, David Hyrenbach & Nina Karnovsky.  *Puffinus pacificus*

 Crying wolf? are Black-footed Albatross really endangered?  Craig S. Harrison.  *Phoebastria nigripes*

 Global distribution and conservation of threatened seabird breeding islands.  Reina Heinz, Bernie Tershy, Kelly Newton, Sarah Horwath & Donald Croll

 Albatross appetite for pelagic plastics: patterns across the north Pacific and relationship to organic contaminants  Robert Henry, Suhash Harwani, Donald Croll, Bernie Tershy, June-Soo Park, Myrto Petreas, Scott Shaffer, Michelle Kappes, Yann Tremblay, Daniel Costa, Cynthia Vanderlip & Charles Moore.  Laysan *Phoebastria immutabilis* & Black-footed *P. nigripes* Albatrosses

 Wintering habitat use patterns by threatened Pink-footed Shearwaters.  Peter Hodum, David Hyrenbach & Josh Adams.  *Puffinus creatopus*

 Restoration of endangered seabirds in the main Hawaiian islands.  Nick Holmes, Cathleen Bailey, Fern Duvall, Holly Freifeld, Darcy Hu, Megan Laut, Jay Penniman, Chris Swenson & Lindsay Young.  Newell's Shearwater *Puffinus newelli*

 Interannual variation of top predators and prey abundance on Georges Banks (northwest Atlantic).  Marie Martin, Richard Veit & Michael Jech.  Cory's Shearwater *Calonectris diomedea*

 Pink-footed Shearwaters (*Puffinus creatopus*) off Canada's west coast: seasonal distribution patterns and characteristics of marine areas where they have been observed.  Ken Morgan & Alicia Newbury

 Response of non-breeding Sooty Shearwaters (*Puffinus griseus*) to spatial and temporal variability in winds within the California Current System.  Melinda S. Nakagawa, Josh Adams, Erika McPhee-Shaw & James Harvey.

 Uncharted waters: the first flights of fledgling Hawaiian albatrosses.  Scott Shaffer, Yann Tremblay, Michelle Kappes, Elizabeth Flint, John Klavitter, Barry Christenson & Daniel Costa.  Laysan *Phoebastria immutabilis* & Black-footed *P. nigripes* Albatrosses

 When albatrosses ignore scientific literature: problems using plumage class and bursa size to age birds killed in longline fisheries.  Jo Smith, Ken Morgan & Ann Edward.  Black-footed Albatross *Phoebastria nigripes*

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_footed/Black_footed_Albatross2_by_Aleks_Terauds_small.jpg.jpg "Black-footed Albatross.  Photograph by Aleks Terauds")

 The 38th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group will be held in Hawaii, USA in February 2012 ([click here](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/index.php?f=meeting&t=Annual Meeting&s=1)).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 26 July 2011*