Bird Dilemma: More seabirds killed when boats discard fewer fish

Records stretching back 30 years indicate a tricky problem for marine conservation: When fishing vessels discard less fish-waste material, scavenging seabirds called great skuas attack and kill more neighboring seabirds.

The link shows up in an unusually long dietary study of great skuas nesting on the Scottish island of Foula in the western North Sea, says Stephen C.