For fishing companies: Plan your pathway to seabird-safe fishing

Introduction

Get your seabird safety rating and plan how to improve.

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1. Find the seabird risk zone where you fish

Use the map to find how risky your fishing area is for seabirds. 

Then go to the next step.

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2. Calculate how seabird-safe your fishing is

What is the seabird risk zone where you fish? (If you are fishing in different areas, use your highest risk zone.)
What seabird-safe practices are you using?
What verification methods are you using?

You are using no seabird-safe fishing practices

Find what seabird-safe fishing practices to use.

Seabird safety rating – best

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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.

Seabird safety rating – best

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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.

Seabird safety rating – best

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You are fishing in a low risk zone. Your current practices reach best seabird safety.

This means threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught. Congratulations, you have minimised captures.

Seabird safety rating – partial

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You are fishing in a high risk zone. Your current practices reach partial seabird safety.

This means threatened seabirds may still be caught.

How to improve

For high risk zones you can reach best seabird safety by using:

Seabird safety rating – partial

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You are fishing in a medium risk zone. Your current practices reach partial seabird safety.

This means threatened seabirds may still be caught.

How to improve

For medium risk zones you can reach best seabird safety by using:

Seabird safety rating – partial

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You are fishing in a low risk zone. Your current practices reach low seabird safety.

This means threatened seabirds may still be caught.

How to improve

For low risk zones you can reach best seabird safety by using:

Seabird safety rating – poor

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You are fishing in a high risk zone. Your current practices reach poor seabird safety.

This means threatened seabirds are likely to be caught.

How to improve

For high risk zones you can reach best seabird safety by using:

You will only get a partial safety rating if using:

Seabird safety rating – poor

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You are fishing in a medium risk zone. Your current practices reach poor seabird safety.

This means threatened seabirds are likely to be caught.

How to improve

For medium risk zones you can reach best seabird safety by using:

You will only get a partial safety using just:

Seabird safety rating – none

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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.

How to improve

For high risk zones you an get a best safety rating by using:

You will only get a partial safety rating if using:

And you will only get a poor safety rating if using just:

Verification reliability – best

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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.

Verification reliability – partial

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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.

How to improve verification

Human observers are best at verifying all seabird safety practices.

Other verification methods and what they are good at.

Verification reliability – poor

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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.

More about dockside inspections.

How to improve verification

Human observers are best at verifying all seabird safety practices.

Other verification methods and what they are good at.

Verification reliability – none

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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.

More about dockside inspections.

How to improve verification

Human observers are best at verifying all seabird safety practices.

Other verification methods and what they are good at.

Verification reliability – none

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Remote monitoring systems (VMS / AIS) achieves no reliability for your seabird-safe practices.

How to improve verification

Human observers are best at verifying all seabird safety practices.

Other verification methods and what they are good at.

Verification reliability – poor

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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.

How to improve verification

Human observers are best at verifying all seabird safety practices.

Other verification methods and what they are good at.

Verification reliability – best

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Remote monitoring systems (VMS / AIS) 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.

Verification reliability – partial

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Electronic monitoring 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.

Electronic monitoring gives partial reliability for:

More about electronic monitoring.

How to improve verification

Human observers are best at verifying all seabird safety practices.

Other verification methods and what they are good at.

Reliability rating – best

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Electronic monitoring 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.

More about electronic monitoring.

Verification reliability – partial

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Electronic monitoring and 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 electronic monitoring and dockside inspection.

Verification reliability – best

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Electronic monitoring and dockside inspection 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.

More about electronic monitoring and dockside inspection.

Verification reliability – partial

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Bird scaring line tension devices achieve 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 bird scaring line tension devices.

Verification reliability – none

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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:

Verification reliability – none

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Underwater bait setter sensor 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.

Underwater bait setter sensor provide no seabird-safe verification for:

More about underwater bait setter sensors.

Verification reliability – partial

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Underwater bait setter sensor 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 underwater bait setter sensors.

How to improve

Human observers are the best way to verify seabird safety with underwater bait sensors.

Other verification methods and what they are good at. 

Verification reliability – partial

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Electronic monitoring and underwater bait setter sensor 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 electronic monitoring and underwater bait settor sensors.

How to improve verification

Human observers are best at verifying all seabird safety practices.

Other verification methods and what they are good at. 

Verification reliability – best

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Electronic monitoring and underwater bait setter sensors achieve 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.

You are using no verification method

You cannot verify that your seabird-safe practices are being used.