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title: "New Zealand plans research on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels for 2015/16 through fishery levies"
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# New Zealand plans research on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels for 2015/16 through fishery levies

The New Zealand [Department of Conservation](http://www.doc.govt.nz) has released its draft [Conservation Services Programme](http://www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/conservation-services-programme/) Annual Plan for 2015/16 that describes those services and projects aimed to address the impacts of commercial fisheries on marine protected species.  Direct impacts include seabirds being being caught, injured or killed in nets or on hooks ([click here](http://www.doc.govt.nz/get-involved/have-your-say/all-consultations/2015/draft-conservation-services-programme-annual-plan-2015-16/)).

 The [annual plan](http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/conservation/marine-and-coastal/marine-conservation-services/plans/draft-csp-annual-plan-2015-16.pdf) lists a number of proposed  projects that relate to the conservation of albatrosses and petrels, including ACAP-listed species.  By title these are:

 Identfication of seabirds captured in New Zealand fisheries

 Black Petrel and Flesh-footed Shearwater foraging behaviour around fishing vessels

 Black Petrel: Aotea/Great Barrier Island and Hauturu/Little Barrier Island population project

 Flesh-footed Shearwater: various locations population project

 Seabird population research: Auckland Islands 2015-16

 Northern Buller's Albatross: review taxonomy

 Protected Species Bycatch Newsletter

 Seabird bycatch reduction (small longline vessel fisheries)

 Small vessel seabird mitigation project

 *![Bullers Albatrosses Solanders 6 Jean Claude Stahl s](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Bullers/Bullers%20Albatrosses%20Solanders%206%20Jean-Claude%20Stahl%20s.jpg)*

 Buller's Albatross chicks, photograph by Jean-Claude Stahl

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 26 April 2015*