Albatross and petrel distribution within the South Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement area

Citation
Carneiro APB, Pearmain EJ, Dias MP, et al (2021) Albatross and petrel distribution within the South Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement area. In: SIOFA - 3rd Meeing of the Stock & Ecological Risks Assessment. SERAWG -03-07, Online
Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify areas and periods of greatest density for albatrosses and petrels within the South Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA) area. We overlapped the SIOFA boundary to the maps presented by Carneiro et al., (2019, 2020), which includes information from across different life-history stages, to give an overview of the importance of SIOFA area for albatrosses and petrels year-round and by year-quarter. We aimed to fill in gaps in the knowledge of at-sea distributions for these species.