The origins of white-chinned petrels killed by long-line fisheries off South Africa and New Zealand

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The origins of white-chinned petrels killed by long-line fisheries off South Africa and New Zealand

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The white-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) is the seabird species most frequently killed by fisheries in the Southern Ocean and is listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources as globally vulnerable. It breeds around the sub-Antarctic, but genetic data identified two subspecies: P. a. aequinoctialis from islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and P. a. steadi from the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands

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2016-06-01

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N.M.S. Mareile Techow / Colleen O’Ryan / Christopher J.R. Robertson / Peter G. Ryan

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Polar Research

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http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/21150/47257

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Fishery bycatch / Procellaria aequinoctialis / genetic structure / genetic diversity / demographic impact. / Environmental sciences / Oceanography / Science (General)

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