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title: "Two French colour-banded White-chinned Petrels reported killed by fishing vessels off Namibia"
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# Two French colour-banded White-chinned Petrels reported killed by fishing vessels off Namibia

Bronwyn Currie of the [Namibian Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources](http://www.mfmr.gov.na/) reports a banded White-chinned Petrel *Procellaria aequinoctialis* killed by a longliner on 14 May this year at 22° 51’S; 13° 04’E off Walvis Bay, Namibia.   The bird carried a French metal band DZ 25706 along with black-on-yellow colour band 212.  The bird was banded on 29 November 2013 as a breeding adult with a chick on Île Haute, Golfe de Morbihan, [Îles Kerguelen](http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1435-acap-breeding-site-no-39-iles-kerguelen-300-islands-supporting-10-acap-species).

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/W/White_chinned/white_chinned_petrels_ namibia 4_july_2012_john_patterson.jpg)

 White-chinned Petrels fall victim to a Namibian longliner

 Photograph by John Paterson

 An earlier record is of banded White-chinned Petrel DZ 21644 killed in a hake trawl on 11 August 2008 in Namibian waters at 28° 21’S; 14° 33’E.  Then fisheries observer onboard kept the head and the banded leg for identification purposes showing that the bird was banded as a chick on 15 March 2007 on [Île de la Possession](http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1582-acap-breeding-site-no-53-ile-de-la-possession-iles-crozet-home-of-l-albatros-hurleur), Îles Crozet.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/W/White_chinned/Whie-chinned Petrel head and leg Jessica Kemper.jpg) 

 DZ 21644

 [Click here](http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/component/search/?searchword=Namibia&searchphrase=all&Itemid=211) to access earlier reports in *ACAP Latest News* of fisheries-induced mortality of ACAP-listed seabirds, including of banded individuals, in Namibian waters.

 With thanks to Kolette Grobler, Jean-Paul Roux, Franck Theron and Henri Weimerskirch for information.

 Selected Literature:

 Péron, C., Delord, K., Phillips, R.A., Charbonnier, Y., Marteau, C., Louzao, M. & Weimerskirch, H. 2010.  Seasonal variation in oceanographic habitat and behaviour of White-chinned Petrels *Procellaria aequinoctialis *from Kerguelen Island.  [*Marine Ecology Progress Series* 416: 267-284](http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v416/p267-284/).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 06 June 2014*