Lenfest and UW Modeling Forum working group

Lenfest and the UW Modeling Forum have officially launched a new working group to assess scientific tools, data sets, and methods in order to evaluate the rates and impacts of bycatch on marine mammals. The working group will meet four times over 2018 and 2019, with its first meeting on May 16 – May 18 in Seattle, WA. Here are online materials:

If you have any questions, please contact eknight@lenfestocean.org.

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White-chinned petrel

The white-chinned petrel is the most common avian bycatch species in the Southern Ocean (Weimerskirch et al 1999; Gilman 2006; Robertson et al 2006; Birdlife International 2013).

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