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It remains undisputed for over a century that 'Seabirds are Indicators', the same can be said is true for the Global Ocean Crisis in the Anthropocene.

However, considering the reality of oceans and many seabirds, the applied policy concept that seabirds can show us the status of fish stocks - can actually forcast  them- and indicate the ocean's health for pre-cautionary action has apparently failed. Seabird scientists in their respective institutions and employments watched and studied their indicators first-hand but did not get active, hardly acknowledged and promoted it or really stopped a desaster unfolding right under our all noses. Conservation principles and the underlying causes of the problem got widely ignored or not addressed well, failing many future generations.

Here I elaborate in two sound files on this tragic-surprising problem and I question the effectiveness, structure and validity of 'modern' seabird research and employment - including some legislation - that is currently done for conservation, also involving inherent topics of data sharing, statistics, public office, ethics and biotagging.

Citations (PDFs available from the author on request):

Bandura A. (2007) Impeding ecological sustainability through selective moral disengagement. Int. J. Innovation and Sustainable Development 

                   2: 8-30

Cairs, D. (1988). Seabirds as indicators of marine food supplies. Biological Oceanography 5 (4), 261-271

Huettmann, F. and B. Czech (2006) Taking Marine Seabird Conservation Seriously: Towards a Steady State Economy for the Pacific and Beyond.

                 Pacific Seabirds Volume 33 Fall 2: 52-54.

Huettmann F., T. Riehl and K. Meissner (2016) Paradise lost already? A naturalist  interpretation of the pelagic avian and marine mammal detection

                database of the IceAGE cruise off Iceland and Faroe Islands in fall 2011. Environment, Systems and Decisions  DOI: 10.1007/s10669-

                015-9583-0

Pauly, D. and M.L. Palomares (2005) Fishing down marine food webs: it is far more pervasive than we thought. Bulletin of Marine Science 76(2):

                197-211.