Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds



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Agreement on the Conservation of

African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds

Doc: AEWA/MOP 6.39

Agenda item: 25

Original: English
Date: 10 August 2015

6th Session of the Meeting of the Parties

9 - 14 November 2015, Bonn, Germany

Making flyway conservation happen”



REVIEW OF POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF MARINE FISHERIES ON MIGRATORY SEABIRDS WITHIN THE AFROTROPICAL REGION

Background

At the First Session of the Meeting of the Parties to AEWA in November 1999, a project entitled “Study of the potential impacts of marine fisheries on migratory seabirds” was listed amongst the AEWA International Implementation Priorities 2000-2004 (Resolution 1.4). Following the acquisition of funding, the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat contracted the (then) Avian Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, to undertake the project (Cooper 2006).

During initial discussions on the scope and ambit of the project, it was agreed that it would be a desktop study, reviewing published and grey literature sources, and further that it would be restricted to the Afrotropical Region (Africa south of the Sahara). An initial draft was completed in 2009, by John Cooper and Samantha Peterson; this focused on the Atlantic Ocean.

After a review by the Technical Committee, a number of major issues were raised. In 2013 the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat managed to acquire extra funding and commissioned a revision of the report to BirdLife South Africa.


The current document represents a revised and updated version thereof, expanded to cover a broader range of fisheries in both Atlantic and Indian oceans. It was reviewed by the AEWA Technical Committee prior to and during its 12th Meeting in March 2015, and by the AEWA Standing Committee during its 10th Meeting in July 2015, where it was approved for submission to MOP6.

Action requested from the Meeting of the Parties
The Meeting of the Parties is invited to note this review and take its conclusions and recommendations into account in the decision-making process (Draft Resolution AEWA/MOP6 DR 9 Improving the Conservation Status of African-Eurasian Seabirds).

REVIEW OF POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF MARINE FISHERIES ON MIGRATORY SEABIRDS WITHIN THE AFROTROPICAL REGION

REPORT TO THE AFRICAN-EURASIAN WATERBIRD AGREEMENT
January 2015
Christina Hagen and Ross Wanless

Seabird Conservation Programme, BirdLife South Africa






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