We are at an important moment for the team. Finding a bird-scaring line design for the Uruguayan fleet that works for their operations has been a worry for us since we started. We have been working to try and raise awareness of the seabird issue with them and developing ideas to stop the mortality of seabirds in the world's oceans.To solve our problem, one of the actions from our January Chile workshop was that the ATF team in Uruguay and the team in Brazil would work together in the search for a bird-scaring line design for the fleets fishing off the coast of these countries.
So for the past month we have been bringing together materials for the construction of a series of bird-scaring lines and towed devices that will be used to provide tension, causing the lines to fly high behind the vessels.
As a first step, Sebastian Jiménez travelled to Brazil to work with the Brazilian team in order to standardise protocols, materials and designs that we will be using over the course of the year. We can now go out to see and test them. Can't wait!