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If you know if your fishing area is high risk, medium risk or low risk for threatened seabirds, click on the risk zone below to learn the practices to use for best seabird safety.
If you don’t know if your fishing area is high risk, medium risk or low risk for threatened seabirds, use the seabird map to find out.
Practices to use for best seabird safety
- Bird-scaring lines + night setting + line weighting
- Hook-shielding devices
Practices to use for best seabird safety
- Bird-scaring lines + night setting + line weighting
- Hook-shielding devices
- Underwater bait setter
- Night setting + line weighting
- Bird-scaring lines + night setting
- Bird-scaring lines + line weighting
Practices to use for best seabird safety
- Bird-scaring lines + night setting + line weighting
- Hook-shielding devices
- Underwater bait setter
- Night setting + line weighting
- Bird-scaring lines + night setting
- Bird-scaring lines + line weighting
- Bird-scaring lines
- Night setting
Next steps: Learn about seabird-safe verification
Factsheet summary: Seabird-safe practices for ocean risk zones (PDF, 227K)