No evidence of cryptic bycatch causing New Zealand sea lion population decline [Biological Sciences]

In PNAS, Meyer et al. (1) analyze whether exclusion devices in trawl nets contributed to New Zealand sea lion (NZSL; Phocarctos hookeri) population decline at the Auckland Islands. We refute the primary conclusion from their correlative assessment: that annual pup production changes (as a measure of population size) were primarily...

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