Comments on the benefit to penguins of fishing restrictions around Robben Island predicted by Weller et al. Robben Island penguin model simulations

Abstract

The following comments relate to results in a recent publication (Weller et al., 2014) that are pertinent to the discussions of the Island Closure Task Team, specifically the impact of fishing around Robben Island on the penguin population. Three scenarios were explored in that paper, each starting with 3500 adult penguins