Go to slide: 1: Seabird Interactions with Non-Treaty Sockeye Fishery in North Puget Sound, August 1994. 2: Marbled Murrelet 3: Objectives of the Study 4: Variables Collected By Onboard Observers 5: Method For Estimating Total Seabird Entanglements 6: Study Area 7: Estimated Non-Treaty Sockeye Gill Net Fishing Effort, Area 7 & 7A 1994 8: Common Murre 9: Rhino 10: Food Fish 11: Seabird Entanglements According to Location in Gillnet 12: Age Comparison of common murre and rhinoceros auklets entangled (%). 13: The Percent of All Observed Sets with Entangled Birds 14: The Percent of All Sets According to the Number of Birds Entangled in Any One Set 15: Estimated Seabird Entanglement Rates (Birds/Set) and Total Incidental Mortalities 16: Factors Associated with Probability of Bird Entanglement 17: Acknowledgements

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Both common murres and rhinoceros auklets feed by diving under the water to catch their favorite prey sandlance, smelt and capelin. This foraging behavior makes them susceptible to entanglements in fishing nets that are set in place under the surface of the water.

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