[Birdbycatch] Fwd: [SEABIRD] info on seabird/fishery RTD at IOC

[Liz Mitchell]

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>Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:48:48 -0900
>From: "Kim Rivera" <Kim.Rivera@noaa.gov>
>Organization: NOAA Fisheries
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>To: Seabird Bycatch List <seabird@groa.uct.ac.za>,
>    Scott Hatch <Scott_Hatch@usgs.gov>, John Piatt <John_Piatt@usgs.gov>,
>    Hollie Walsh <hwalsh@u.washington.edu>,
>    Deon Nel <dnel@savethealbatross.org.za>
>Subject: [SEABIRD] info on seabird/fishery RTD at IOC
>Sender: owner-seabird@groa.uct.ac.za
>
>Hi Folks,
>Deon Nel asked me to fwd this to the seabird listserver; first is the
>abstract submitted by him and John Croxall, for a round table discussion
>at the International Ornithological Congress, this August in Beijing,
>China.  Following the abstract is the email from Deon that the abstract
>was attached to.
>
>thanks, Kim Rivera
>
>
>Impacts of long-line fishing on seabirds: Towards the identification of
>geographical =93hotspots=94 of seabird mortalityDeon C. Nel^1^ and John P.
>Croxall^2^^1^ BirdLife International Seabird Conservation Programme,
>BirdLife South Africa, 27 Somerset Crescent, Lakeside, 7945, Cape Town,
>South Africa, deon_nel@iafrica.com; ^2^ BioSciences Division, High
>Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, England UK,
>j.croxall@bas.ac.ukKeywords: seabirds, long-line fishing, incidental
>mortality, hotspotsSeabirds are killed in long-line fisheries worldwide.
>However the scale of the problem and the affected species varies
>according geographic locality, season and type of fishery.  Not only are
>seabird foraging distribution and long-line fishing effort both
>non-uniformly distributed across the oceans, but different types of
>long-line fisheries kill different suites of seabirds. Increasing
>numbers of seabird tracking studies are giving a clearer picture of how
>seabirds utilize their habitat. Overlaying such information on a
>spatio-temporal map of long-line fishing effort, will allow us to
>identify geographical areas of intense seabird - long-line fishery
>interactions. The identification of such areas has important
>conservation implications. Possible management actions for such areas
>could include the use of more stringent mitigation measures, seasonal
>closures, or setting Total Allowable Catches (TACs) of seabird species
>with small populations. Unfortunately, to date publication of seabird
>tracking studies has been piecemeal and colony specific, whilst the
>accessibility of distributional data for long-line fisheries is even
>more haphazard. This Round Table Discussion will thus focus on: 1) The
>consolidation of all extant seabird tracking studies into a Geographical
>Information system (GIS)2) Consolidation of data on long-line fishing
>effort and impacts into the same system3) Protecting intellectual
>property 4) Tools and statistical techniques to be used for summarizing
>data5) Identification of long-line fisheries for which few fishing
>effort and/or seabird by-catch data are collected or available 6)
>Progress in the use molecular genetic techniques to ascertain provenance
>of seabird by-catch carcasses7) The way forward: filling in the data
>gaps
>
>Discussions will follow a regional perspective and will be preceded by
>brief summaries from the North Pacific, South Pacific, South Atlantic
>and south Indian Oceans. It is hoped that the final product of these
>discussions will be a GIS system of seabird long-line fishery
>interactions that can be accessible to seabird biologists via the
>internet.
>
>
>
>From: Deon Nel
>To: Seabirds at Sea Team ; Scott.Shaffer ; Scott Shaffer ; Sandy Bartle
>; Rosemary Gales ;
>Richard Cuthbert ; Peter Ryan ; Nic Huin ; Lisa.Ballance@noaa.gov ; Ken
>Morgan ;
>Kathy.Cousins@noaa.gov ; Kathy Walker ; John Croxall ; Javier Arata ;
>Henri Weimerskirch ;
>Graham Robertson ; Graeme Elliot ; Geoff Tuck ; Flavio Quintana ;
>david.gremillet CNRS-CEPE
>; David Nicholls ; David Anderson ; D.G. Nicholls ; april.hedd@ec.gc.ca
>; Hendrik Moller
>Cc: Rob Crawford ; Lincoln Fishpool ; Ali Stattersfield ; Aldo Berruti ;
>Leon Viljoen ; Euan Dunn
>; John Cooper ; mike hagler
>Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:06 PM
>Subject: Seabird Tracking
>
>  Dear all
>
>Some of you may be aware that we have submitted an abstract for a round
>table discussion (RTD) at
>the 23rd International Ornithological Conference in China. For those of
>you who have not seen this, a
>copy is attached.
>
>The essence of what we would like to discuss is the possibility of
>consolidating all extant albatross
>and petrel tracking data into a central Geographic Information System
>(GIS),  as a first attempt at
>identifying important foraging areas at a global scale. The initial idea
>(as you will see from the IOC
>abstract) was to perform a similar exercise for longline fisheries on
>the high seas and thereby
>identify =93hotspots=94 of procellariform/longline fishing interaction,=
 with
>a view to assist conservationists,
>fishery managers and policy makers to prioritise their efforts in areas
>where it counts the most. Since
>submitting the abstract our thinking has continued to evolve and we also
>see this initiative as an
>important potential contribution towards the identification of Important
>Bird Areas (IBAs) on the high
>seas.
>
>While we recognise the desirability of being able to combine
>distributional data for all appropriate
>marine taxa on some common or compatible database, we feel it is best
>initially for experts on
>particular groups to combine forces and produce something that is
>relevant to their interests and
>priorities.  However, it is obviously essential that all products should
>have the capacity for being
>viewed on a common basis.  Even getting to this stage with seabird data
>alone will be a challenging
>proposition!
>
>We recognise that a particular concern will be data confidentiality and
>protection of intellectual
>property rights.  This is obviously an important area to discuss at the
>workshop.  Mechanisms that
>may help to allay concerns could include:
>
>    a.submission of post-processed data (i.e. range maps produced to an
>agreed common
>      standard from the tracking data rather than submitting the data
>themselves);
>    b.restricting access, via password protection, to contributors to the
>scheme (see later
>      concerning potential rules for access to and use of data);
>    c.two-tier protection (i.e. more restricted access for hitherto
>unpublished data);
>    d.an explicit policy on access to and use of data contributed to the
>database, beyond any
>      purpose agreed by the group as a whole.  (This might, for instance,
>be based on the rules
>      adopted by CCAMLR.  These, in essence, require any potential user
>of the data to notify all
>      data holders of the purpose for which data are requested and
>affords an opportunity for
>      anyone to comment on the proposal and restrict access at this
>stage.  Subsequently,
>      permission of all data holders would be required before any
>document could be submitted for
>      publication in any form whatsoever).
>
>Despite these =AD and doubtless other =AD concerns, we believe that it is
>important that we try now to
>pool our resources to provide an overview of current data, to aid both
>scientific and conservation
>endeavours and to assist in the development of this whole field of
>research.  Given the rapid
>expansion of tracking studies of seabirds, we feel it is particularly
>timely to review the extent to which
>appropriate collaboration can produce something which addresses broader
>and larger issues than
>any parts of the available data could do so on their own.  We believe it
>would be helpful to do this at a
>time when there are already extensive plans to study more species, birds
>other than breeding adults
>and times of year outside the breeding season and when newer devices
>(leg-mounted geolocators,
>GPS) are coming into wider use.
>
>We recognise that our proposal at this stage addresses only the
>procellariiform data
>(notwithstanding that this is currently the majority of information
>available) and that for the IBA
>process to be credible, significant account will need to be taken of
>other tracking data sets (e.g.
>penguins, alcids, gannets etc) and existing =93conventional=94 data on at
>sea distribution of seabirds.
>However, we felt that if there is agreement on the desirability of
>combining data and on an
>appropriate way forward that the best group to form a pilot study would
>be the procellariiforms.  In
>addition we felt that the aggregation of data on seabirds at sea studied
>by visual observation
>techniques would be beyond the scope of our RTD.  We would hope that if
>our pilot study is
>successful then interest in adding other seabird tracking data and
>particularly in reassessing the
>feasibility of combining the many schemes which have and are collecting
>seabird at sea data could
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>
>We have attempted to identify the main holders of albatross and petrel
>tracking and data, and have
>come up with the following list:
>
>South Atlantic =AD John Croxall, Jose Xavier, Richard Phillips, Phil
>Trathan, Nic Huin, Flavio Quintana,
>David Gremmilet.
>
>Temperate Atlantic =AD Richard Cuthbert, Peter Ryan.
>
>South Indian (African sector) =AD Henri Weimerskirch, Deon Nel, Peter
>Ryan.
>
>South Indian (Australian sector) - April Hedd, Rosemary Gales.
>
>South Pacific (NZ sector) =AD Christopher Robertson, Kath Walker, Graeme
>Elliot, Sue Waugh, David
>      Nicholls.
>
>South Pacific (S. American sector) =AD Graham Robertson, Javiar Arata.
>
>Northern and Equatorial Pacific =AD David Anderson, David Hyrenbach, Lisa
>Ballance, University of
>      California, Santa Cruz.
>
>Important holders of spatio-temporal Fisheries data are - Geoff Tuck
>for Southern Ocean; Kathy
>      Cousins for Northern Pacific Tuna.
>
>This list will not be complete. So if anyone could advise us of other
>data holders it would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>We should welcome any responses, particularly to the following
>questions.
>
>1) What do you think of this proposal? i.e. Is this something that the
>seabird community can benefit
>from and result in better management and conservation of marine systems
>to the advantage of
>seabirds?
>
>2) Are you interested in participating in this process?
>
>3) Will you be attending the 23rd IOC in China?
>
>Finally, we see the IOC Round Table Discussion (and responses to this
>circular) as part of a scoping
>exercise at the conceptual level. If it is found that the concept is
>both desirable and feasible, we will
>start looking at the more practical issues of taking this process
>further. We look forward to your
>response; please reply to Deon Nel.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Deon Nel & John Croxall

Elizabeth Mitchell
P.O. Box 933
Eugene, Oregon 97440
U.S.A.
Tel: (541) 344-5503
E-mail: emitch@efn.org

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