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Article: The cost of seabirds.(SPECTRUM)(Brief article)
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- Environment
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Seafarers and seabirds have had an uneasy relationship since long before Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ancient mariner weighed in on the matter of killing an albatross, but for the modern fishing industry, it is a quantifiable problem: accidental catches of seabirds have devastated some bird populations, scientists say, and strict controls on by-catch can be costly.
Chris Wilcox of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Hobart, Tasmania, and Josh Donlan of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, have come up with an innovative solution: "biodiversity offsetting," under which fishers could offset losses from by-catch by paying ...