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Abstract
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a high net-mortality of seabirds, particularly Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia), was associated with the west Greenland salmon fishery. Since 1972, the domestic fishery has been controlled by quotas and fishery opening dates and non-Greenlandic offshore drift-net fishery was phased out in 1975. These restrictions probably resulted in a substantial decrease in murre net-mortality. However, the Greenlandic fishery has changed considerably since 1972 when seabird bycatch was last examined in detail. Fishing vessels now use monofilament nylon nets almost exclusively; fishing effort has redistributed closer to murre breeding colonies and intensive drift-netting occurs offshore on the continental shelf. These factors, combined with a change in 1981 to a later fishing season have probably resulted in a renewal of significant murre net-morality at west Greenland.
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| Publication type | Conference Paper |
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| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | Recent trends in the west Greenland salmon fishery, and implications for Thick-billed Murres |
| ISBN | 0-662-13311-0 |
| Year Published | 1982 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Pacific Seabird Group |
| Publisher location | Little River, CA |
| Contributing office(s) | Alaska Science Center |
| Description | 3 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Conference publication |
| Larger Work Title | Marine birds: Their feeding ecology and commercial fisheries relationships |
| First page | 208 |
| Last page | 210 |
| Conference Title | Special Symposium at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group |
| Conference Location | Seattle, WA |
| Conference Date | January 6-8, 1982 |
| Country | Greenland |
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