* The paper evaluates the Australian fur seal monitoring program, which showed positive population trends until a decline was noted in the 2013 census, highlighting the need for better understanding of these changes.
* Recommendations include improving the monitoring program to make it adaptive, incorporating stakeholder needs, enhancing data collection quality, and using power analyses to interpret trends effectively.
Entanglements of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella were recorded during four summers from 1996 to 2002 at the subantarctic island, Bouvetøya. Rates of entanglement varied between 0.024% and 0.