Author:Butterworth, Douglas; Brandao, Anabela; de Moor, Carryn; Robinson, WilliamDate:2010Pichegru et al. (2010), and a follow up comment by Ryan et al. (2010), make strongly stated claims that closures to pelagic fishing around islands with penguin breeding colonies lead to rapid improvements in those penguin populations. These ...Read more
Author:Plagányi, Éva E; Robinson, WilliamDate:2008This document serves as an updated compilation of all data currently available as inputs to the African penguin spatial model which is to be coupled to the pelagic OMP. The data are presented here together with some comments as to how they ...Read more
Author:Robinson, WilliamDate:2012This paper incorporates a complete description of the penguin–fish interaction model for Robben
Island. All data included are described in full in Section 2. The model equations are described
in detail in Section 3. Base case results are ...Read more
Author:Plagányi, Éva E; Robinson, WilliamDate:2008Given the move towards adopting an ecosystem approach to fisheries in the pelagic sector, the new pelagic OMP needs to be tested in the light of not only the risk parameters as considered previously, along with catch statistics for the anchovy ...Read more
Author:Plagányi, Éva E; Robinson, WilliamDate:2008This document serves as an updated compilation of all data currently available as inputs to the African penguin spatial model (MCM/2008/SWG-PEL/21b) which is to be coupled to the pelagic OMP. The data are presented here together with some ...Read more
Author:Robinson, WilliamDate:2011The 2010/2011 penguin moult season conventionally runs from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011. During
this period, counts of moulting birds were made on 20 occasions (Table 1). These counts have now
been converted to aggregates for the year using ...Read more
Author:Robinson, WilliamDate:2012The moult count time-series for Dassen Island and Robben Island, historically the two most
important African penguin colonies in the Western Cape, are updated with data collected during
the 2011/2012 season (1 july 2011 to 30 June 2012). ...Read more