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Jeffery Mangel (Pro Delphinus) submitted his PhD thesis to the University of Exeter this February.  Data were collected from small-scale fisheries in Ecuador and Peru with seabird information appearing in Chapter 5 of the thesis (which has also appeared as an ACAP document - see below).

Seabird bycatch was found to be high in both longline and gillnet fisheries, and included a wide range of species including the Critically Endangered Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata.  Other ACAP-listed species affected were Black-browed Thalassarche melanophris, Grey-headed T. chrysostoma, Chatham T. eremita and Buller's T. bulleri Albatrosses and White-chinned Procellaria aequinoctialis and Black P. parkinsoni Petrels. Pink-footed Shearwaters Puffinus creatopus were also killed; a species that has been identified by Chile for ACAP listing.

Waved Albatross at sea.  Photograph by Barry Baker

Selected References:

Mangel, J.C. 2012.  Interactions of Peruvian small-scale fisheries with threatened marine vertebrate species.  PhD thesis, University of Exeter.  169 pp.

Mangel, J.C., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Baquero, A., Darquea, J., Godley, B.J. & Hardesty Norris, J.  2011  Seabird bycatch by small-scale fisheries in Ecuador and Peru.  Sixth Meeting of Advisory Committee, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 29 August - 2 September 2011.  ACAP SBWG-4 Doc 24.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 16 May 2012