Lessons from seabird conservation in Alaskan longline fisheries

• Published in: Conservation Biology
• Main Authors: Melvin, Edward F., Dietrich, Kimberly S., Suryan, Robert M., Fitzgerald, Shannon M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
• Subjects: Contributed Papers; Fulmar; Fulmarus glacialis; Northern Fulmar
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850691/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30689227; https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13288

Although bycatch of seabirds and other long‐lived species is a critical conservation issue in world fisheries, case studies documenting significant reductions in the mortality of these low‐productivity species in a fishery are rare. We studied progress toward seabird conservation in the Alaskan long...