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From the abstract of the referenced paper:1. Incidental mortality in fisheries is causing declines in many albatross populations around the world. To assess potential interactions with regional fisheries satellite tags were used to track black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophrys) and light-mantled sooty albatrosses (Phoebetria palpebrata) breeding on Heard Island during the chick-rearing periods of 2003/2004. This was the first time individuals from either population had been tracked.
2. Black-browed albatrosses foraged largely within the Heard and McDonald Islands Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ) north-east of the island, although 20% of foraging trips were to areas north of the EEZ into Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) areas 58.5.1 and 58.5.2 and into the Iles Kerguelen EEZ.
3. In contrast, the light-mantled sooty albatrosses foraged well south of Heard Island along the southern boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Both species appear to face minimal risk of incidental mortality during the chick-rearing period in the regulated, legal fisheries, but are threatened by illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing vessels operating in the southern Indian Ocean.
The data have been loaded into the ARGOS database held by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre. An excel spreadsheet detailing PTT number (position tracking terminal), date of attachment, date of retrieval and species is also provided as an aide to searching the ARGOS database. Two articles are also associated with this record, a refereed journal article, plus an article in the Australian Antarctic Division's Antarctic Magazine.
The fields in this dataset are:
Species
PTT number
Date of attachment
Date of retrieval
Latitude
Longitude
Time
Lineage
Progress Code: completedData time period: 2003-12-21 to 2004-02-06
text: westlimit=67.0; southlimit=-56.0; eastlimit=77.0; northlimit=-49.0
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Download point for the data - csv file providing details of the trackers placed on birds (GET DATA)
uri :
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=2403
ARGOS Satellite Tracking Database (GET DATA)
uri :
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/argos/
Public information for ASAC project 2388 (PROJECT HOME PAGE)
uri :
https://projects.aad.gov.au/search_projects_results.cfm?project_no=2388
Website for accessing the referenced journal article (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)
local : www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/aqc
Download point for the data - pdf copy of referenced journal article (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)
uri :
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=2404
Download point for the data - pdf copy of Antarctic Magazine article (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)
uri :
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=2405
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)
uri :
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_2388_alb_foraging
- global : ASAC_2388_alb_foraging