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The Coastal Marine Programme of APECO (Asociación Peruana para la Conservación/ Peruvian Association for the Conservation of Nature) has recently released a new multimedia video aimed at conserving seabirds and other threatened marine species which are accidentally killed by fisheries in Peruvian waters.  The goal of the new video is to alert viewers to the quantities of by-catch species captured annually, and the tools available to mitigate interactions with fishing gear.

The new APECO video is entitled "Victimas accidentales de la Pesca.  Amenazados en el mar" (Accidental victims of fishing: threatened at sea).  The video has been produced in Spanish and contains valuable information on the effects of fishing on a suite of marine top predators, particularly seabirds, marine mammals and turtles.

The video demonstrates the efforts conducted by the APECO Project "Incidental Capture of Albatross and Petrels" in order to reduce the mortality of the "pajarotes", especially the ACAP-listed Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata, and other marine wildlife in the waters off Peru.

Production of the video was supported by the USA's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation.

For more information, contact Liliana Ayala at APECO at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Juan Pablo Seco Pon, ACAP South American News Correspondent, 08 March 2011