An initial reality check on estimates related to black-browed albatross kills in the trawl fishery
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2010
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The SASSI Kingklip assessment makes certain key statements about the kills of black-browed albatross
(the avian species most at risk of those they consider) in the SA trawl fishery:
an annual kill of 5000 in 2006 (all birds 18000)
a subsequent reduction to 2200 through the introduction of tori lines (all birds 8000) (assuming proportional reduction)
a necessary bycatch reduction to less than 2% of current levels needed for the population to recover.
The document conducts an initial reality check on these assertions. To do so it makes use of results in
Thomson et al. (2009).
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Butterworth, D. S., & Geromont, H. F. (2010). An initial reality check on estimates related to black-browed albatross kills in the trawl fishery. FISHERIES.