Southern Seabird Solutions Trust
CONSERVATION THROUGH COOPERATION
Southern Seabird Solutions empowers fishermen to make a difference.
By using role-models to champion new attitudes and behaviours, we encourage and support fishermen in New Zealand and around the world to adopt responsible fishing practices to avoid the death and injury of seabirds in the southern hemisphere.
We are an innovative alliance of the seafood industry, environmental groups, and government who take a cooperative approach to seabird conservation.
Our website will tell you about the work we do in New Zealand and internationally to find solutions to seabird by-catch, to educate people about this issue and to inspire them to get involved and act in a ‘seabird smart’ manner.
New educational resource available
Recently Southern Seabird Solutions Trust teamed up with the Seafood Industry Training Organisation (SITO) to update SITO’s learning resource on the reduction of seabird incidental capture during commercial fishing. The resource has been developed for new recruits as well as people already in the fishing industry - from skippers to factory managers to crew members.
The learning resource covers topics such as the ecological, marketing and economic consequences of accidentally killing seabirds, and ways to avoid these interactions.
Funding for this learning resource was provided by the Ministry of Fisheries. The resource is available on SITO's website.
