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Year	Citation	Gear	Species	Technique/Category
2022	Birdlife International (2022) Update on the “Project proposal for enhancing education on and implementation of Ecologically Related Species seabird measures within CCSBT fisheries. In: CCSBT - 14th Meeting of the Ecologically Related Species Working Group. CCSBT-ERS/2203/19, Online	LL	Seabirds	Management Categories Compliance
2016	Birdlife International (2016) Birdlife Data Zone. In: BI Data Zone. http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/home. Accessed 12 Jun 2012	LL, PS	Seabirds	Management Categories Data Availability and Collection
2016	BirdLife International (2016) 拯救信天翁 – 如何减少金枪鱼延绳渔业误捕海鸟（简体中文）	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Double-weight branchlines Line weighting & bait sink rate Night / day setting Sliding Leads (Lumo Leads) Streamer (tori) lines
2014	Birdlife International (2014) Bycatch Mitigation Fact-Sheet 12. Demersal and Pelagic Longline: Haul mitigation. English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Spanish.	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Branchline (snood) hauler Brickle curtain Management of offal discharge Water cannon or fire hose
2011	Birdlife International (2011) Developments in experimental mitigation research - Pelagic longline fisheries in Brazil, South Africa and Uruguay. ACAP, Fourth Meeting of the ACAP Seabird Bycatch Working Group, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Doc 9.	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Line weighting & bait sink rate Night / day setting Streamer (tori) lines
2022	Birdlife International (2022) Seabird bycatch mitigation methods. In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 18th Regular Session. WCPFC SC18 NGO-BI, Electronic Meeting	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Dyed bait Management of offal discharge Streamer (tori) lines Management Categories Compliance International & National Management Schemes
2013	Birdlife International (2013) European Union Plan of Action for reducing incidental catches of searbirds in fishing gears	LL	Seabirds	Management Categories International & National Management Schemes
2015	BirdLife International (2015) Saving Albatrosses - How to Reduce Seabird Bycatch - Tuna Longline Fisheries - English	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Double-weight branchlines Line weighting & bait sink rate Night / day setting Sliding Leads (Lumo Leads) Streamer (tori) lines
2014	Birdlife International (2014) Bycatch Mitigation Fact-Sheet 6. Demersal Longline: Underwater setting chute. English, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Spanish.	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Underwater setting techniques
2016	BirdLife International (2016) アホウドリ類との共存を目指して混獲回避に向けた取り組み	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Double-weight branchlines Line weighting & bait sink rate Night / day setting Sliding Leads (Lumo Leads) Streamer (tori) lines
2019	Birdlife International (2019) Report of the Final Global Seabird Bycatch Assessment Workshop. In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 15th Regular Session. WCPFC-SC15-2019/EB-WP-07, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia	LL, PS, GN	Seabirds	Management Categories International & National Management Schemes Review and Planning
2016	BirdLife International (2016) Salvemos al albatros - Cómo reducir la captura incidental de aves marinas en palangreros – Español Saving Albatrosses – How to Reduce Seabird Bycatch - Spanish	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Double-weight branchlines Line weighting & bait sink rate Night / day setting Sliding Leads (Lumo Leads) Streamer (tori) lines
2014	Birdlife International (2014) Bycatch Mitigation Fact-Sheet 7a. Pelagic Longline: Streamer lines (vessels >=35m). English, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Spanish.	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Streamer (tori) lines
2023	Birdlife International (2023) BirdLife International Statement to the 19th session of the WCPFC Scientific Committee (SC19). In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 19th Regular Session. WCPFC-SC19-2023/NGO paper, Koror, Palau	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Spatial & temporal measures Management Categories Compliance Data Availability and Collection E-monitoring International & National Management Schemes
2016	BirdLife International (2016) 알바트로스 구하기 – 다랑어 연승어업에서의 바닷새 혼획 줄이기 - 한국어	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Double-weight branchlines Line weighting & bait sink rate Night / day setting Sliding Leads (Lumo Leads) Streamer (tori) lines
2014	Birdlife International (2014) Hook Pod Update. ACAP Seabird Bycatch Working Group, Punta del Este, Uruguay	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Hook Shielding Devices Hookpod
2014	Birdlife International (2014) Bycatch Mitigation Fact-Sheet 10. Pelagic Longline: Blue-dyed bait (squid). English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Spanish.	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Dyed bait
2014	Birdlife International (2014) Bycatch Mitigation Fact-sheet 7b. Pelagic Longline: Streamer lines (vessels <35m). English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Spanish.	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Streamer (tori) lines
2015	Birdlife International (2015) Albatross bycatch reduction in long line fishing. http://www.birdlife.org/asia/news/speaking-your-language-save-albatrosses?utm_source=1.14.16+ISSF+E+News+&utm_campaign=1.14.16+E+News&utm_medium=email. Accessed 8 Mar 2016	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Safe handling & release
2018	Birdlife International (2018) Seabird Bycatch Mitigation Factsheets / Ending Seabird Bycatch. In: Birdlife International partnership for nature and people. http://www.birdlife.org/bycatch. Accessed 5 Nov 2014	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Branchline (snood) hauler Dyed bait Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Night / day setting Side-setting Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2014	Birdlife International (first) (2014) High hook pod success rate offers hope for seabirds. Sea Change - BirdLife International Marine Programme newsletter	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Hook Shielding Devices Hookpod
2017	Birdlife International, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (2017) Towards Seabird-safe Fisheries - Global Efforts & Solutions	LL, PS, GN	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Hook Shielding Devices Hookpod Line weighting & bait sink rate Night / day setting Sliding Leads (Lumo Leads) Streamer (tori) lines
2017	Birdlife South Africa (2017) Update on the seabird component of the Common Oceans Tuna Project. In: ACAP - Eighth Meeting of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group. SBWG8-Doc-INF03, Wellington, New Zealand	LL	Seabirds	Management Categories Policy Development and Knowledge Exchange
2017	Birdlife South Africa (2017) Update on the seabird component of the Common oceans tuna project - seabird bycatch assessment workshops. In: IOTC - 13th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch. IOTC-2017-WPEB13-39, San Sebastián, Spain	LL	Seabirds	Management Categories Review and Planning
2014	Blankinship R (2014) Status of Bycatch Mitigation Measures in the Atlantic Pelagic Longline Fishery for Highly Migratory Species	LL	Sea Turtles	Mitigation Techniques Circle hooks Corrodible hooks Safe handling & release Spatial & temporal measures Weak Hooks Management Categories International & National Management Schemes

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