5 October 2009 CSP/NPOA - Seabirds Technical Working Group

9:30am - approx. 4:00pm (if required), Department of Conservation, 18-32 Manners Street, Wellington

Chair: Johanna Pierre phone: +64 4-471-3204; email: jpierre@doc.govt.nz

Minutes

Meeting minutes (PDF, 32K)

Agenda

9.30 Welcome, Introductions, Scope, Objectives, Apologies
9.35 Presentations
11.00 Coffee break
1.00 Lunch break
1.30 Continue presentations
Any other business
4.00 Close of meeting

Order of presentations

Population studies:

POP2007/01 New Zealand sea lion: Auckland Islands field trip 2008-09, plans for 2009-10 by Louise Chilvers (DOC)
Presentation: POP2007/01 NZ sea lion research, summer 2008/09, by Louise Chilvers (PDF, 772K)
POP2007/01: NZ sea lion research trip, Auckland Islands 2008/2009

POP2008/01 Black petrel: Great Barrier Island field trips 2008-09, plans for 2009-10 by Elizabeth Bell (WMIL)
Presentation: POP2008/01: Black petrels research trip, Great Barrier Island, by Elizabeth Bell (PDF, 1800K)

POP2005/02 White-capped albatross: Auckland Islands field trip 2008, plans for 2009 by David Thompson (NIWA)
Presentation: POP2005/02 White-capped albatross: Auckland Island (PDF, 3,000K)
POP2005/02 Draft annual report
POP2005/02 White-capped albatross, Auckland Islands: provisional fieldwork plan for the 2009/10 breeding season (PDF, 14K)

Fisheries interaction projects:

INT2007/02 Seabird autopsy: 2008-09 progress report by David Thompson (NIWA)
INT2007/02 Seabird autopsy: 2008-09 progress report (PDF, 50K)

INT2009/02 Photo-identification of live seabirds: project update by Igor Debski (DOC)
INT2009/02 Photo-identification of live seabirds (PDF, 288K)

Mitigation projects:

MIT2006/09 Mitigating fur seal captures in trawl nets. Draft final report. George Clement (Clement & Associates)
Presentation: MIT2006/09 Mitigating fur seal captures in trawl nets (PDF, 1,700K)
MIT2006/09 Mitigating incidental captures of fur seals in trawl fisheries: A report commissioned by DOC

MIT2009/01 Development of mitigation strategies: Inshore fisheries. Project plan. David Goad (Vita Maris)
Presentation: MIT2009/01 Development of mitigation strategies: Inshore fisheries (PDF, 1,000K)

Results from the 2008 offal mincing experiments: does mincing reduce seabird attendance at trawl vessels by Ed Abraham (Dragonfly)
Presentation: Results from the 2008 offal mincing experiments: (PDF, 1,900K)

Other project updates:

Seabird abundance (observer counts) by Ed Abraham (Dragonfly)
Presentation: Seabird abundance (PDF, 467K)

Electronic Monitoring trial 2008 by Igor Debski (DOC)
Electronic monitoring in the New Zealand inshore trawl fishery: a pilot study

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