NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):

Keystone Initiative - Birds

Project Title: Mitigating Pink-footed Shearwater Bycatch in Small-scale Net Fisheries of the Humboldt Current

Organization:

BirdLife International

Project ID:

0101.15.050025

Award Amount:

$230316.00

Location:

The purse seine mitigation work will be focused off the central coast of Chile amongst the purse seine fleet that operates from Isla Mocha. At-sea observation in gillnet fisheries will be undertaken off the southern central coast of Peru.