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title: "Recent issues of three seabird and bycatch newsletters report on albatross and petrel conservation issues"
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# Recent issues of three seabird and bycatch newsletters report on albatross and petrel conservation issues

Three newsletters reporting on matters pertaining to the conservation of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters have been produced recently.  Summaries of their contents follow.

 **Sea Change The newsletter of the Global Seabird Programme**

 [Issue No. 9 for May 2013](http://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/sea_change_newsletter_tcm9-347908.pdf) of the BirdLife International’s Global Seabird Programme newsletter *Seachange* covers recent activities, including of its Albatross Task Force.  Mention is made on progress by the European Union and New Zealand with their National Plans of Action to reduce seabird mortality from fisheries.  Features cover mortality from both gill nets and trawls.

 **Boletín Pacífico Sur**

 The [third issue](http://www.atfchile.cl/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/boletin-PS_Nro-3_ATFv.-web.pdf) of the *Boletín Pacífico Sur* (Bulletin South Pacific), nominally for December 2012, is now available.  The bulletin, produced in Spanish, is a publication of BirdLife’s Albatross Task Force in Chile and Ecuador.  The newsletter is aimed at people involved in fishing activities, academics, students and the general public.  Salvin’s Albatross *Thalassarche salvini* and safe leads to avoid injury to fishers are featured in the latest issue.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Salvins/Salvins Albatross Snares Paul Sagar 6.jpg)

 Salvin's Albatross.  Photograph by Paul Sagar

 **Bycatch Bylines**

 *Bycatch Bylines* is published in New Zealand, and is funded by the Department of Conservation.  Issue No. 6 for June 2103 discusses [bafflers](http://www.doc.govt.nz/warp-strike-mitigation-devices) to reduce seabird mortality in trawlers and talks about the country’s [National Plan of Action](http://www.fish.govt.nz/en-nz/Environmental/Seabirds/default.htm).  For more information on bafflers click here.

 To obtain the newsletter contact [ ](mailto:bycatch.bylines@yahoo.com)[bycatch.bylines@yahoo.com](mailto:bycatch.bylines@yahoo.com).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 12 July 2013*