van Franeker, Jan A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2035-5007
Jensen, Jens-Kjeld http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7268-6046
Simonsen, Poul Johannes
Bravo Rebolledo, Elisa L. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-0251
Kühn, Susanne http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1052-7634
Article History
Received: 4 June 2021
Accepted: 10 February 2022
First Online: 17 March 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest or competing interests.
: At the time of fulmar collection in June 2015, the hunter thought that his capture of fulmars at the offshore location required no special permit (100 km off the nearest coast; at 650 and 870 km distance from Greenland’s nearest breeding colonies). We learned only later that hunting of fulmars, also in the offshore sector of the Greenlandic EEZ, was unauthorized except for the months of September and October. Since we felt that it had no purpose to discard the valuable study material, we requested permission from the Greenlandic Government to publish our results of the stomach analyses in spite of the illegal character of the hunt. This permission was kindly provided by the Ministry of Fisheries and Hunting (20 Dec 2021, Case nr 2021–76, Akt nr. 18824778). The seasonal restriction of fulmar hunting in Greenland was adopted because near colonies, in September–October, the traditional hunt of fledglings has a relatively low population impact. Our study results show that the same line of reasoning has validity also in the offshore sector. A considerable proportion of our study birds were active adult breeding birds, likely not from Greenland, but probably linked to the large Icelandic population.
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