Seabirds, set-nets, and conservation management: assessment of conflict potential and vulnerability of birds to bycatch in gillnets

Present address: Wiesenstrase 9, 16278 Angermu¨nde, Germany.Sonntag, N., Schwemmer, H., Fock, H.O., Bellebaum, J., and Garthe, S. 2012. Seabirds, set-nets, and conservation management: assessment ofconflict potential and vulnerability of birds to bycatch in gillnets. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 578–589.Received 16 August 2011; accepted 26 January 2012; advance access publication 1 March 2012.