Slow sink rate in floated-demersal longline and implications for seabird bycatch risk

• Yann Rouxel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yann Rouxel, Ian R. Cleasby

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yann.rouxel@rspb.org.uk

  Current address: RSPB Glasgow office, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Affiliation BirdLife International Marine Programme, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0619-6580

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• Rory Crawford ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: RSPB Glasgow office, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation BirdLife International Marine Programme, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Juan Pablo Forti Buratti ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St Andrews, School of Biology, Scottish Oceans Institute, St Andrews, United Kingdom

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• Ian R. Cleasby

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yann Rouxel, Ian R. Cleasby

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: RSPB the Lodge, Sandy, United Kingdom

  Affiliation RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, United Kingdom

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