Use the map to find how risky your fishing area is for seabirds.
Then go to the next step.
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Find what seabird-safe fishing practices to use.
You are fishing in a high risk zone. Your current practices reach best seabird safety.
This means threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught. Congratulations, you have minimised captures.
You are fishing in a medium risk zone. Your current practices reach best seabird safety.
This means threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught. Congratulations, you have minimised seabird captures.
You are fishing in a low risk zone. Your current practices reach best seabird safety.
You are fishing in a high risk zone. Your current practices reach partial seabird safety.
This means threatened seabirds may still be caught.
For high risk zones you can reach best seabird safety by using:
You are fishing in a medium risk zone. Your current practices reach partial seabird safety.
For medium risk zones you can reach best seabird safety by using:
You are fishing in a low risk zone. Your current practices reach low seabird safety.
For low risk zones you can reach best seabird safety by using:
You are fishing in a high risk zone. Your current practices reach poor seabird safety.
This means threatened seabirds are likely to be caught.
You will only get a partial safety rating if using:
You are fishing in a medium risk zone. Your current practices reach poor seabird safety.
You will only get a partial safety using just:
You are fishing in a high risk zone. Your current practices reach no seabird safety.
This means threatened seabirds are highly likely to be caught.
For high risk zones you an get a best safety rating by using:
And you will only get a poor safety rating if using just:
Human observers achieves best reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
This means you can verify the seabird-safe practices are being used, and all specifications are being met.
Human observers are the best at verifying all types of seabird-safe practices and combinations:
More about human observers.
Dockside inspection achieves partial reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
This means you can verify if seabird-safe practices are used. But you can only verify that some specifications are being met but not all.
More about dockside inspections.
Human observers are best at verifying all seabird safety practices.
Other verification methods and what they are good at.
Dockside inspection achieves poor reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
This means you cannot verify that seabird-safe practices are being used. But you can only verify that some specifications are being met.
Dockside inspection cannot verify night setting is being used or specifications met.
Dockside inspection gives partial reliability for line weighting. And poor reliability for:
Dockside inspection gives no reliability for night setting.
Remote monitoring systems (VMS / AIS) achieves no reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
Remote monitoring system (VMS/AIS) achieves poor reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
This means you cannot verify if seabird-safe practices are used. But you can verify that some specifications are being met but not all.
Remote monitoring systems (VMS / AIS) achieves best reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
Electronic monitoring achieves partial reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
Electronic monitoring gives partial reliability for:
More about electronic monitoring.
Electronic monitoring achieves best reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
Electronic monitoring and dockside inspection achieves partial reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
More about electronic monitoring and dockside inspection.
Electronic monitoring and dockside inspection achieves best reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
Bird scaring line tension devices achieve partial reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
More about bird scaring line tension devices.
Bird scaring line tension device achieves no reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
This means you cannot verify that seabird-safe practices are being used or specifications are being met.
Bird scaring line tension device provides no seabird-safe verification for:
Underwater bait setter sensor achieves no reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
Underwater bait setter sensor provide no seabird-safe verification for:
More about underwater bait setter sensors.
Underwater bait setter sensor achieves partial reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
Human observers are the best way to verify seabird safety with underwater bait sensors.
Electronic monitoring and underwater bait setter sensor achieves partial reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
More about electronic monitoring and underwater bait settor sensors.
Electronic monitoring and underwater bait setter sensors achieve best reliability for your seabird-safe practices.
You cannot verify that your seabird-safe practices are being used.
Summary of fishing practices and verification methods