Tier- und Naturschutz???

New fishery regulations introduced in Namibia could practically eliminate seabird mortality from one of the most destructive fisheries in the world. The regulations will require all trawl and longline vessels to use bird scaring lines, and for longline vessels to use improved line weighting.

The country’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources have been working Albatross Task Force (ATF), who estimate that the adoption of these two simple and cost-effective mitigation measures could reduce bird deaths by more than 95 percent.

It is estimated around 30,000 seabirds per year die due to long-line and trawl fishing in Namibia, one of the highest levels in the world and a tenth of the 300,000 seabirds killed this way globally each year. Approximately 100,000 of these birds are albatross, the most threatened family of birds with 15 of 22 species at risk of extinction.