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IOTC Seabirds Identification Cards

Year of publication 2013

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) These seabird identification cards are produced as part of a series of awareness materials developed by the Indian Ocean Tu Commission in order to improve the reporting of interactions between vessels targeting species under the magement mandate of the IOTC and seabirds.

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