Objective: stopping the impact of fishing fleets on the most threatened marine birds
Accidental by-catch –which affects around 5,000 birds stuck in longlines every year- is the most severe effect on marine birds by the fishing activity in the Mediterranean. The exploitation of fishing resources is threatening more and more the future of many marine birds with regression populations, such as Cory’s shearwater or the Balearic shearwater.
Studying the interaction between marine birds and fishing activities in the peninsular Levant is the objective of a project coordinated by Jacob González-Solís, lecturer from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and funded by Fundación Biodiversidad. Other partner entities of the new project are the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) and Asociación de Naturalistas del Sureste (ANSE).