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title: "Presentations on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels and on seabird bycatch at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 46th Annual Meeting"
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# Presentations on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels and on seabird bycatch at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 46th Annual Meeting

The [Pacific Seabird Group](https://pacificseabirdgroup.org/) held its 46th Annual Meeting on the Hawaiian island of Kauai from 27 February to 3 March 2019.  A list by senior author and title follows of presentations made at the meeting that considered ACAP-listed species and also seabird bycatch.  Abstracts for each of these (and other) titles are given in the on-line abstract booklet.

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 A Laysan Albatross feeds its chick on Midway Atoll, photograph by Pete Leary

 Colleen Bryan.  Potential to trace chemicals in Laysan Albatross (*Phoebastria immutabilis*) sibling eggs.

 Marcus Collado.  Predator control on a navy installation: keeping the enemy at bay [Laysan Albatross *Phoebastria immutabilis*].

 Melinda Conners.  Using life history to inform marine spatial planning for the protection of wide-ranging pelagic seabirds [Laysan *Phoebastria immutabilis* and Black-footed*P. nigripes* Albatrosses].

 Tomohiro Deguchi.  Determinants of post-fledging survival in translocated albatross chicks [Short-tailed Albatross *Phoebastria albatrus*].

 Caroline Fox*.* A spatial assessment of albatrosses, fisheries, and bycatch events in coastal British Columbia [Black-footed Albatross *Phoebastria nigripes*, Laysan Albatross *P. immutabilis*, Short-tailed Albatross *P. albatrus*].

 Autumn-Lynn Harrison.  Bycatch of banded seabirds in the Pacific Ocean, 1945-2018  [Black-footed Albatross *Phoebastria nigripes*, Laysan Albatross *Phoebastria immutabilis*].

 Peter Hodum.  Living with seabirds in a complex landscape: Juan Fernández Islands, Chile [Pink-footed Shearwater *Ardenna creatopus*].

 Jason Jannot.  Cryptic seabird mortality on U.S. West Coast Pacific hake fishing vessels [Black-footed Albatross *Phoebastria nigripes*].

 Joseph Krieger.  Seabird bycatch and mitigation efforts in Alaska fisheries summary report: 2007 through 2017.

 Caitlin Kroeger.  At-sea energetics of Campbell and Grey-headed Albatrosses in relation to southern ocean wind variability.

 Verónica López*.*  Challenges and lessons learned in addressing human harvest of Pink-footed Shearwaters on Isla Mocha, Chile.

 Edward Melvin.  Lessons from seabird conservation in Alaska longline fisheries.

 Kaycee Morra.  Decadal and millennial-scale foraging habits of three Hawaiian seabirds: amino acid δ15N, δ13C, and δD analyses [Laysan Albatross *Phoebastria immutabilis*].

 Jaime Ojeda.  Ancestral and contemporary biocultural interactions between albatrosses and human being in the sub-Antarctic region.

 Jonathan Plissner.  Update on albatross population monitoring at Midway Atoll NWR.

 Katherine Rubiano.  Protecting birds and pilots: Laysan Albatross management on a navy installation.

 Matthew Saunter.  Adapting management priorities to buffer effects of climate change at Kure Atoll, Hawai‘i [Black-footed Albatross *Phoebastria nigripes*].

 Rodrigo Silva.  Solutions to protect storm-petrels between mining development, military exercises and an artificially illuminated landscape.  [Pink-footed Shearwater *Ardenna creatopus*].

 Cristián Suazo.  Seabird bycatch in purse seine fisheries: the case of the modified purse seine as a novel mitigation measure.

 Roberta Swift.  The albatross demography program: an update.   [Black-footed Albatross *Phoebastria nigripes*, Laysan Albatross *Phoebastria immutabilis*].

 Leigh Torres.  Novel methods describe fine-scale albatross-fisheries interactions in the north Pacific.  [Black-footed Albatross *Phoebastria nigripes*, Laysan Albatross *P. immutabilis*, Short-tailed Albatross *P. albatrus*].

 Eric A. VanderWerf.  Translocation of Hawaiian seabirds to high islands to mitigate the effects of climate change.  [Black-footed Albatross *Phoebastria nigripes*, Laysan Albatross *P. immutabilis*]

 William Walker.  Preliminary findings on the diet of Laysan Albatrosses, *Phoebastria immutabilis*, in the eastern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands region.

  A large number of presentations was made on procellariiform species not listed by ACAP.  Consult the abstract booklet for these.

 **Reference:**

 [Karnovsky, N. & Bachman, D. (Eds)] 2019.  [Pacific Seabird Group 46th Annual Meeting Kaua’i Beach Resort Lihue, Kaua’i, Hawai’i 27 February – 3 March 2019 Scientific Program Full Abstracts](https://pacificseabirdgroup.org/annual-meeting/annual-meetings-archive/).  96 pp.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 03 April 2019*