Plans for Malta’s first deep-water offshore fish farm include using detritus-eating crustaceans in lower cages to minimise ...

Pollution likely to come from last week’s collision involving an oil tanker and cargo ship.

Bycatch of seabirds in fisheries is one of the main threats to seabird populations globally. Annually, thousands of birds are estimated to be killed in longline fisheries specifically (Anderson et al.

and high nutrient levels (derived from seabird transference of nutrients). Criterion (x): The NZSAI, and the ocean that surrounds and links them, support an extraordinary and outstanding array of ...

but another condition on the fishery is to gather better data about seabird bycatch. The frequency of bird capture on hooks in longline fisheries is variable, and depends on various factors including ...

Accidental bycatch is an unwelcome side effect of commercial fishing ... For example, through working with fishing crews and policy makers to pass new fishing laws, seabird deaths reduced by an ...

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 ...

A study published in ScienceAdviser investigated the physiological effects of plastic ingestion in seabird chicks, specifically the sable shearwater (Ardenna carneipes), using data-independent ...

Kath Walker and Graeme Elliott, pictured on Antipodes Island with a male wandering albatross, have spent 32 summers and counting charting the populations of birds on subantarctic islands.

Charities say the unintended bycatch is a particular problem in prawn trawl fishery due to the small mesh size of the nets. The fisherman, who took the video and asked not to be named, said it did ...

A collapse driven by overfishing of their key food sources, sardines and anchovies. Without urgent action, this iconic seabird could vanish from the wild by 2035. But now, hope has arrived. On 18 ...

Dozens of chicks and bird eggs were receiving treatment at the International Bird Rescue Los Angeles Wildlife Center in San Pedro on Wednesday, March 26, after being rescued from a wind-damaged ...