At 20:12 27/07/2003 +1000, knightl wrote:
The world's longliners set as many as a billion hooks annually, on lines
up to 130 kilometres (80 miles) long. Methods of reducing the toll include:
...
fishing at night, when large albatrosses are unlikely to be feeding
...
When do albatross feed? I heard recently a theory that many albatross feed
at night when squid are closer to the surface. Is this correct?
On all the pelagics that I have been on, I have never seen an albatross
feed, other that on the fish scraps that we throw over the back of the boat.
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