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title: "Indian Ocean Tuna Commission Scientific Committee to discuss seabird mortality this week"
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# Indian Ocean Tuna Commission Scientific Committee to discuss seabird mortality this week

The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission's Scientific Committee is meeting this week in Victoria, Seychelles when seabird-fishery interactions are expected to be discussed ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/the-indian-ocean-tuna-commission-makes-slow-progress-with-changing-its-seabird-bycatch-resolution) for a previous ACAP story on the IOTC's efforts to reduce seabird mortality by pelagic longliners).

 A draft document (IOTC-2010-SC-08)to be tabled at the meeting, entitled "Executive Summary of the Status of Seabirds", may be found at [http://www.iotc.org/files/proceedings/2010/sc/IOTC-2010-SC-08%20[E+F].pdf](http://www.iotc.org/files/proceedings/2010/sc/IOTC-2010-SC-08%20%5bE+F%5d.pdf).

 [Click here](http://www.iotc.org/files/proceedings/2010/sc/IOTC-2010-SC-01[E].pdf ) for the meeting's agenda.

 The [Australian National Report](http://www.iotc.org/files/proceedings/2010/sc/IOTC-2010-SC-Inf01.pdf) to the IOTC Scientific Committee details Australian efforts to reduce seabird mortality and reports only two birds (a yellow-nosed albatross *Thalassarche* sp. and a Flesh-footed Shearwater *Puffinus carneipes*) hooked in its Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery in 2009.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_browed/Black_Browed_Albatross_dead_by_Graham_Robertson.jpg "Black-browed Albatross: a victim of longlining.  Photograph by Graham Robertson")

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 6 December 2010*