Since 2001, Scientists from the Fisheries Department have been uniting efforts to monitor seabird interactions, develop and test bycatch mitigation measures, and monitor their implementation.

The mitigation measures developed in the South Georgia fishery have subsequently been adopted in other CCAMLR fisheries and have helped guide global best practice in addressing seabird bycatch.

“New Zealand is concerned that despite the implementation of a conservation and management measure since 2006 to reduce seabird bycatch, project 68 estimates bycatch levels as high as 13,000 to 19,000 ...

For example, seabird tracking data combined with spatial fishing activity data, through a collaboration with Global Fishing Watch, has been used to identify where seabirds encounter fisheries and ...

From 2017 to 2023, there were 6,100 annual dolphin bycatch deaths in the Bay of Biscay, ORCA reported via PELAGIS, a marine mammal and seabird watchdog. From December 2023 to March 2024 ...

Sarah’s current research examines seabird distributions in the Southern Ocean ... and how management interventions such as increased regulation of fisheries bycatch can support recovery of threatened ...