{"id":1945,"date":"2006-11-13T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2006\/11\/13\/funding-to-assess-longline-impact-on-birds\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T15:31:00","slug":"funding-to-assess-longline-impact-on-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/funding-to-assess-longline-impact-on-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding to assess longline impact on birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The populations of both are falling at the fastest rate ever and are facing extinction, thought to be the result of by-catch of longline fishing, according to a Defra release.<\/p>\n<p>The projects will be implemented by the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a315,000 of the funds will help finance a project under the Convention on Migratory Species to assess the impact of global fisheries on marine wildlife and \u00a350,000 will be donated to various conservation projects.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the effects of longlining and how fisheries can reduce by-catch, please see World Fishing November 2006, or see &#8216;Simple Steps to Responsible Longlining&#8217; in the Analysis section of this website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has announced that it will provide \u00a365,000 for projects to promote the conservation of albatrosses and petrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}