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David Middleton has been contracted by the Deepwater Group (a New Zealand fisheries industry organisation) to provide science advice on fisheries/protected species interactions and is a member of the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries Aquatic Environment Working Group. Paul Breen has been contracted by the Deepwater Group to comment on sea lion bycatch issues and was contracted by the Ministry for Primary Industries to advise with respect to the government’s Threat Management Plan for sea lions; he was formerly employed by the Crown Research Agency NIWA and conducted sea lion population modelling on contract to the Ministry for Primary Industries and its predecessors and to the New Zealand Department of Conservation; he is a member of the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries Aquatic Environment Working Group.
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Middleton, D.A.J., Breen, P.A. Comment on “Population dynamics reveal conservation priorities of the threatened New Zealand sea lion Phocarctos hookeri” by Meyer, Robertson, Chilvers and Krkošek (2015). Mar Biol 163, 109 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2864-4
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