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The seabird-safety of your fishing depends on whether there are threatened seabirds where you fish, and what seabird-safe practices you use.
How to assess your seabird-safe practices:
- Use the seabird map to find out if you fish in a high risk, medium risk or low risk zone.
- Select what seabird-safe practices you currently use from the options listed below.
High-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
Medium-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
Low-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
This practice (or combination of practices) provides best seabird safety. Therefore, no additional improvements are required.
Find out how reliable your verification is and how to improve it
High-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
Medium-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
Low-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
This practice (or combination of practices) provides best seabird safety. Therefore, no additional improvements are required.
Find out how reliable your verification is and how to improve it
High-risk zone
Partial seabird safety: Threatened seabirds might still be caught
Medium-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
Low-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
How to improve your seabird-safe practices
Find out how reliable your verification is and how to improve it
High-risk zone
Partial seabird safety: Threatened seabirds might still be caught
Medium-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
Low-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
How to improve your seabird-safe practices
Find out how reliable your verification is and how to improve it
High-risk zone
Partial seabird safety: Threatened seabirds might still be caught
Medium-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
Low-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
How to improve your seabird-safe practices
Find out how reliable your verification is and how to improve it
High-risk zone
Partial seabird safety: Threatened seabirds might still be caught
Medium-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
Low-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
How to improve your seabird-safe practices
Find out how reliable your verification is and how to improve it
High-risk zone
Poor seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are likely to be caught.
Medium-risk zone
Partial seabird safety: Threatened seabirds might still be caught
Low-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
How to improve your seabird-safe practices
Find out how reliable your verification is and how to improve it
High-risk zone
Poor seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are likely to be caught.
Medium-risk zone
Partial seabird safety: Threatened seabirds might still be caught
Low-risk zone
Best seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are unlikely to be caught – you have minimised captures
How to improve your seabird-safe practices
Find out how reliable your verification is and how to improve it
High-risk zone
Poor seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are likely to be caught
Medium-risk zone
Partial seabird safety: Threatened seabirds might still be caught
Low-risk zone
Partial seabird safety: Threatened seabirds might still be caught
How to improve your seabird-safe practices
Find out how reliable your verification is and how to improve it
No seabird safety: Threatened seabirds are highly likely to be caught
Next steps: Improve your seabird-safe practices
How the ratings were developed: Methods used to create the Tookit ratings (PDF, 315K)