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Additional Resources

Seabird Incidental Take Avoidance Measures

• Washington Sea Grant - Initiatives for seabird bycatch reduction
• American Bird Conservancy: Mortality Threats to Birds - Longline Fishing
• Australian Antarctic Division: Seabird Mortality in Longline Fisheries
• Australia's Threat Abatement Plan: The Incidental Catch of Seabirds During Oceanic Longline Fishing
• Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
• Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF): Circumpolar Seabird Working Group (CSWG)
• Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation's (FAO): International Plan of Action for Reducing Incidental Catch of Seabirds in Longline Fisheries
• New Zealand Trawl Industry Newsletter on Avoiding Seabird Interactions
• International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) and the Pacific halibut fishery
• North American Waterbird Conservation Plan (NACWCP)
• Seabird Bycatch Email Listserv: an information exchange for the fishing industry, conservationists, researchers, and fisheries and wildlife managers

Albatross and Other Seabirds

• USFWS Annual Reports of Breeding Status and Population Trends of Seabirds in Alaska
• USFWS Pacific Region's Seabird Conservation Plan
• The Albatross Project (see link for Short-tailed Albatross Satellite Tagging Study)
• Short-tailed Albatross Photos by Dr. Hiroshi Hasegawa
• Tracking Ocean Wanderers: The Global Distribution of Albatrosses and Petrels, November 2004 report by Birdlife International
• Regional Fisheries Management Organisations
• Albatross Wanderings, Carl Safina, National Audubon Society (contains reference to bycatch reduction efforts in Alaska)
• Alaska Natural Heritage Program: Procellariiformes Tracking List and Status Reports
• The Albatross Project: Satellite telemetry research
• The Antarctica Project: Southern Ocean albatrosses
• Australian Antarctic Program: (search for "albatross")
• Endangered Species: (click on link to Short-tailed Albatross)
• IPHC Survey: Short-tailed Albatross Sightings
• NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) Bird Site
• The Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology: Albatross research
• Office of Migratory Bird Management: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• Seabirds in Alaska (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
• USFWS' North America Waterbird Conservation Plan
• Seabird and Forage Fish Research (USGS)
• USFWS Birds of Conservation Concern, 2002
• USFWS's Short-tailed Albatross Encounter Form

Other NMFS Seabird Bycatch Websites

• National Bycatch Issues - Bycatch of fishery resources, marine mammals, sea turtles and seabirds
• Hawaii Longline Fisheries and Seabird Bycatch -
      NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIAO)

Organizations

• Alaska SeaLife Center
• The American Ornithologist's Union
• Australian Antarctic Division
• BirdLife International--Global Seabird Conservation Program
• National Fisheries Institute: Longline fisheries
• Pacific Seabird Group
• Southern Seabird Solutions Trust
• World Conservation Union

*If there are other seabird bycatch related websites you think should be added to this list, please send an e-mail to: alaska.webmaster@noaa.gov.

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