Vote Albatross Reason 16: Albatrosses are precious

Fishing kills tens of thousands of albatrosses each year. Although New Zealand fishers have been working hard to reduce the by-catch of seabirds when they are fishing, many New Zealand albatrosses migrate to South America where they feed in some of the most intensively fished waters in the world, and most of these fishing boats don’t use protective measures such as weighted lines that sink quickly, setting nets and lines at night when birds aren’t around, not throwing offal back in the water, or using streamers to scare birds away from the back of the fishing boat.