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title: "The Pacific coast of South America gets its own newsletter to cover seabird bycatch at sea"
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# The Pacific coast of South America gets its own newsletter to cover seabird bycatch at sea

The Albatross Task Force of [BirdLife International](http://www.birdlife.org/index.html)working in Chile ([ATF-Chile](http://www.atfchile.cl/)) has produced, along with its Ecuadorian and Peruvian ATF counterparts, two issues of its Spanish-language newsletter [Boletín Pacífico Sur](http://www.atfchile.cl/publicaciones/boletin-pacifico-sur) ([click here](http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/getinvolved/b/albatross/archive/2013/02/14/south-pacific-bulletin-connecting-the-albatross-task-force-across-the-globe.aspx)).

 The newsletter is edited by Luis Cabezas, Cristián Suazo and Oliver Yates and is is meant to be a conservation tool for the entire coast of the South Pacific. The newsletter is distributed within the fishing industry and to other groups related to the conservation of seabirds. Issue No. 3 is currently under production.

 The first two issues carry articles on several ACAP-listed albatross and petrel species, on bycatch mitigation methods such as bird-scaring lines and on Chile’s [Diego Ramirez Islands](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Ram%C3%ADrez_Islands), where both Black-browed *Thalassarche melanophris* and Grey-headed *T. chrysostoma* Albatrosses breed.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_browed/Black-browed Albatross Ildefonso by Graham Robertson.jpg)  
Windswept Black-browed Albatrosses on Chile's [Ildefonso Islands](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ildefonso_Islands)  
Photograph by Graham Robertson

 Starting the Pacific newsletter was inspired by the Spanish-language *Atlántico sur Boletín*, the newsletter of the Proyecto Albatros y Petreles - Uruguay on the Atlantic coast of South America that is produced by the ATF Uruguay team. To date there are nine issues, all available [on-line](http://cicmar.org/archives/695).

 “Publicación de divulgación de Albatross Task Force (editado por bATF-Chile, con colaboración de los equipos de Ecuador y Perúu) sobre las iniciativas en protección, mitigación e investigación de problemáticas de conservación en aves marinas y otras especies presentes en actividades pesqueras que se desarrollan en el Pacífico Sudoriental (Pacífico Sudamericano). Boletín dirigido a las personas vinculadas a la pesca y público en general.”

 [Click here](https://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/resources/publications-on-acap-species/1087-newsletters-on-procellariiform-seabirds-and-bycatch-issues) to access other newsletters on procellariiform seabirds and bycatch issues around the World.

 With thanks to Oliver Yates and Luis Cabezas of the BirdLife Albatross Task Force for information.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 17 February 2013*