New Zealand Brings in Gold Standard Fishing Practices to Keep Seabirds Safe

Read time: 2 min Article Summary Aotearoa has taken a world-leading step with the news New Zealand will adopt gold standard fishing practices to keep our seabirds safe from accidental capture and will use all three mitigation techniques or hook shielding devices. The Antipodean albatross is on the fast track to extinction with DOC estimating approximately […]
Progress in the fight to save the Antipodean albatross from extinction

A Seabird-Safe Fishing Toolkit being developed in New Zealand was presented to more than 80 participants at an APEC roundtable recently, marking a significant step forward in the effort to save the Antipodean albatross and other seabirds from extinction.
A Waiting Game

To celebrate the global event and to highlight the plight of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Antipodean albatross, a team from the sporting, ocean conservation and creative sectors joined forces to tell this important story.