News : keeping seabirds off the hook

Lasers can rescue seabirds

Foto: J.M. Arcos

The newspaper "El Pais" published on the use of laser light to reduce seabird bycatch in Galicia.  See here (in Spanish)

Still growing...PhD at the GEP

Enrique Real Garcías joined the GEP for a Ph.D. supported by the MINECO. He will deal with the difficult task of estimating fishery induced mortality of seabirds. His challenge will be to couple bycatch data, seabird surveys and capture-recapture data to estimate the mortality caused by fishery. The project will be developed in collaboration with the Balearic Center of Oceanography (IEO). Welcome Enrique.

Seabirdstagram in action!

Seabirdstagram, the recently created free mobile App tool to facilitate the transfer of information on by-catch events, starts giving the first images of seabirds at sea!!

Find below the first image received and the location of the event.

And the map...

Many thanks to the fisherman who used the app!!!

Collaboration between researchers and fishermen surely will be a major step towards a better knowledge and Conservation of the Seas.