Shearwaters and petrels (hereafter petrels) are highly adapted seabirds that occur across all
the world's oceans. Petrels are a threatened seabird group comprising 124 species. They …

Despite the global scale of gillnet bycatch, universal measures that effectively reduce
bycatch of seabirds in gillnets have not been found. Bycatch in coastal gillnet fisheries is an …

Birds are renowned for their exceptional vision and the way that this enables them to survive
and navigate the world in such a unique way. However, it is now recognised that avian …

Capelin are a focal forage species in the Northwest Atlantic ecosystem as they act as an
energy conduit from lower to higher trophic levels. Fisheries and Oceans Canada …

Migratory species with disjunct and localized breeding distributions, including many colonial
marine birds, pose challenges for management and conservation as their dynamics are …

Sensory capacities and perceptual challenges faced by gillnet bycatch taxa result from
fundamental physiological limits on vision and constraints arising within underwater …

The general decline of seabird populations worldwide raises large concerns. Although
multiple factors are interacting to cause the observed trends, increased mortality from …

Fisheries have an enormous economic importance, but reconciling their socio‐economic
features with the conservation and sustainability of marine ecosystems presents major …

Seabird bycatch in commercial fisheries has been a growing conservation concern over the
past 25 years. Large‐scale fisheries employing gears known to incidentally catch seabirds …

Abstract Knowledge of fisheries impacts, past and present, is essential for understanding the
ecology and conservation of seabirds, but in a rapidly changing world, knowledge and …