Seabird Interactions with Fishing & Hunting Publications

*Links to papers below
**Italicized names indicate graduate, undergraduate student, post-doctoral and colleague co-authors whom I supervised or co-supervised

Montevecchi, W.A., H. Chaffey and C. Burke. (2007) Hunting for security: Changes in the exploitation of marine birds in Newfoundland and Labrador. Pages 99-116 in: C. Parrish, S. Solberg and N. Turner (Editors). Resetting the Kitchen Table: Food Security in Canadian Coastal Communities. Nova Science Publishers, New York, New York. 
Dolan, A.H., M. Taylor, B. Neis, J. Eyles, W.A. Montevecchi, and R. Ommer (2005) Environmental and social restructuring and health in Canadian coastal communities: Introducing a socio-ecosystem health approach. Ecohealth: in press.
Montevecchi, W.A. (2004) Review of Seabird Bycatch: Trends, Roadblocks, and Solutions. E.F. Melvin and J.K. Parrish (Editors). Auk 121: 627-628.
Chaffey, H.L., W.A. Montevecchi and B. Neis (2003) Integrating scientific and local ecological knowledge (LEK) in studies of Common Eider ecology in southern Labrador. In: N.H. Hagan, C. Brignall and L. Wood (Editors) Putting Fishers' Knowledge to Work. University of British Columbia Fisheries Center Research Report 11: 426-432.
Montevecchi, W.A. and D.K. Cairns (2002) Episodic predation on post-smolt Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) by Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) in the Northwest Atlantic. North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission Technical Report 4:48-50.
Burke, C., G.K. Davoren, W.A. Montevecchi and I.R. Stenhouse (2001). Winging it back to the future: An historic reconstruction of seabird diversity, distribution and abundance in the Northwest Atlantic, 1500-2000. Pages 27-37 in: T. Pitcher, M. Vasconcellas, S. Heymans, C. Brignall and N. Hagan (Editors). Information supporting past and present ecosystem models of northern British Columbia and the Newfoundland Shelf. University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre Research Report 10: 27-37.
Tasker, M.L., K. Camphuysen, J. Cooper, S. Garthe, W.A. Montevecchi and S. Blaber. (2000) The effects of fisheries on marine birds. ICES Journal of Marine Science: 57: 531-547. pdf - 264 KB
Stenhouse, I.J. and W.A. Montevecchi. (1999) Indirect effects of the availability of forage fish and fisheries discards: Gull predation on breeding storm-petrels. Marine Ecology Progress Series 184: 303-307.
Regehr, H.M. and W.A. Montevecchi. (1997) Interactive effects of food shortage and predation on breeding failures of Black-legged Kittiwakes: Indirect effects of fisheries activities and implications for indicator species. Marine Ecology Progress Series 155:249-260.
Hunt, G.L., R.T. Barrett, C. Joiris and W.A. Montevecchi. (1996) Seabird/fish interactions: Introduction. Pages 2-5 in: G.L. Hunt and R.W. Furness (Editors) Seabird/fish interactions with reference to seabirds in the North Sea. ICES Cooperative Research Report 216.
Russell, J. and W.A. Montevecchi. (1996) Predation on adult Puffins Fratercula arctica by Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinus at a Newfoundland colony. Ibis 138: 791-794.
Montevecchi, W.A. and R.A. Myers. (1995) Prey harvests of seabirds reflect pelagic fish and squid abundance on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Marine Ecology Progress Series 117:1-9.
Andersen-Harild, P., R.T. Barrett, P.H. Becker, R.W. Furness, S.P.R. Greenstreet, J.R.G. Hislop, G.L. Hunt, C.R. Joiris, W.A. Montevecchi, G. Nehes, M.L. Tasker, P.J. Wright. (1994) Report of the Study Group on Seabird Fish Interactions. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) (Copenhagen) CM 994/L:34.
Montevecchi, W.A. and R.A. Myers. (1992) Monitoring fluctuations in pelagic fish availability with seabirds. Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Scientific Advisory Committee (CAFSAC) Research Document 92/94 20 pages.
Montevecchi, W.A. and A. Berruti. (1991) Avian indication of pelagic fisheries and trophic changes in the southeast and northwest Atlantic. Acta 20 Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici, 2246-2256.
Montevecchi, W.A., V.L. Birt and D.K. Cairns. (1987) Dietary changes of seabirds associated with local fisheries failures. Biological Oceanography 5: 153-159.
Montevecchi, W.A. and L.M. Tuck. (1987) Newfoundland Birds: Exploitation, Study, Conservation. Nuttall Ornithological Club, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 273 pp.
Montevecchi, W.A. (1985) Review of Marine Birds: Their Feeding Ecology and Commercial Fisheries Relationships. D.N. Nettleship, G.A. Sanger and P.F. Springer (Editors). Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa. Journal of Field Ornithology 56: 457- 459. (Invited contribution).

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