Fitz News in Africa Birds and Birding: "New research boat tracks African Penguins' prey."

PFIAO. 2011. New research boat tracks African Penguins' prey.Africa - Birds & Birding 16(5):24.

The African Penguin Spheniscus demersus, the only penguin species in Africa and confined to Namibia and South Africa, is now Endangered. Population trends of this species are closely linked to the availability of its prey, especially sardines and anchovies. Recent dramatic decreases in penguin numbers, apparently associated with a lack of food close to penguin colonies, led Oceans and Coast (previously known as Marine and Coastal Management) to close a 20-kilometre-radius area to purse-seine fishing around St Croix Island in Nelson Mandela Bay, the site of the world’s largest remaining African Penguin colony (see Africa – Birds & Birding, June/July 2009). More...