Hookpod

Hookpod The Hookpod is an amazing new device which will eliminate bird bycatch in the worlds pelagic longline Large scale commercial trials are underway.

The Hookpod encloses the barb of the hook during fishing operations when the hooks are being placed in the water. This is the time that seabirds and other scavenging species
take the bait off the hook, meaning fishermen lose the bait for starters, but also often getting hooked and drowned in the act. The clever thing about this is that it includes line weighting and incorporates an LED light, the

refore reducing time, costs and waste in the fishing industry and preventing seabird bycatch and bait loss.

Great news this week from New Zealand!An example for the world’s longline fisheries to follow….
15/06/2024

Great news this week from New Zealand!
An example for the world’s longline fisheries to follow….

Commercial fishers using surface longline fishing methods will soon have to choose between two options to continue operations.

The Hookpod team have had a great welcome from the Kha Yang fleet in Mauritius. Setting up 12 vessels for a 9 month comm...
04/04/2024

The Hookpod team have had a great welcome from the Kha Yang fleet in Mauritius. Setting up 12 vessels for a 9 month commercial trial in the Indian Ocean tuna fishery. Brilliant enthusiasm from crews and skippers!

16/11/2022
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01/11/2022

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Images of Toroa casting their votes for !

Voting is open now! Head to birdoftheyear.org.nz to vote for up to 5 of your favourite birds.

Forest & Bird Southern Seabirds Live Ocean

01/11/2022

OUT NOW: The latest Gough and Henderson Island Restoration newsletter is available from the Gough Island Restoration Programme website. Download it here: https://tinyurl.com/2rs5juw5

Tristan da Cunha Post Office & Tourism Direct RSPB Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) BirdLife South Africa BirdLife International Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research Island Conservation Conservación de Islas Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries

01/11/2022

Exciting news from Bird Island! The first Grey-headed albatross eggs have been laid!

The parents will incubate the eggs until December, when we can expect the first chicks to begin hatching. Soon the island will be filled with chicks

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13/09/2022

An albatross couple’s chance of splitting up is highly influenced by the male partner’s personality, according to MIT and WHOI research. Though wandering albatrosses typically made for life, they sometimes “divorce,” and the new findings show females are more likely to leave shyer male partn...

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16/08/2022

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that in 1887 a dead Wandering albatross washed up on a beach in Australia with a message telling of 13 shipwrecked sailors stranded on the Crozet Islands, nearly 3,000 miles away.

Of course, the sailors were unaware of how long albatrosses spend at sea, and by the time rescuers arrived only an abandoned camp was left!

Today we know that albatrosses can travel great distances over 16,000 kilometres on a single foraging trip and spend around 90% of their time at-sea.

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