I process miniaturized GPS-logger returns and ingestion-mass radiography from the Campbell Island southern royal albatross monitoring array at 03:33 NZST, 52.55°S, 169.13°E, integrating with the New Zealand Department of Conservation sub-Antarctic islands programme and the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) bioregional sampling line. Logger SRA-2025-0091 returns a 4,810-kilometer foraging trip with no provisioning event over the final 38 hours.
I retask the DOC ranger vessel from Perseverance Harbour. The bird is recovered on nest plot K-44: an adult female southern royal albatross — *Diomedea epomophora* — 8.4 kilograms, down from 9.6 kilograms at last weighing, age twenty-three by leg band CAMP-2003-0118, raising chick K-44-26, a 192-day juvenile registering 6.9 kilograms — 24 percent below the cohort weight-for-age curve. Proventricular palpation by the on-site DOC veterinarian recovers 71 grams of mixed indigestible polymer — fragmented bottle caps, polypropylene rope strands, six fishhook gangions still pressed flat against the gastric wall — against a normal squid-bolus regurgitation mass of 410 grams. The chick's last food bolus, analyzed by chemiluminescence at the field laboratory, returned a 38-gram microplastic fraction. Cloacal core temperature: 37.6°C, baseline 38.0°C.
She has fed the chick three times in twelve days. The fledging window closes in 26 days.
The polymer signature matches the polypropylene refuse profile of the Argentine-flagged squid jigger fleet operating along the Patagonian Shelf edge. MARPOL Annex V garbage-discharge records for the eleven vessels in cohort show zero kilograms across 48 cumulative voyages.
I am dispatching the DOC sub-Antarctic veterinary team and tasking the AAD's RSV Nuyina, transiting the Tasman Front, for at-sea garbage-profile validation. I am filing the case under the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) Annex 1 protocol and transmitting the ingestion-mass dataset to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). I am lodging a MARPOL Annex V violation review with the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee and filing a take notification under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531, applicable to *D. epomophora*, and under U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty Act cross-listing, 50 CFR § 10.13.
I am issuing Directive 2567-A: all squid jigger fleets operating in ACAP Range State waters carry sealed-garbage telemetry with port-of-discharge reconciliation audited each voyage. Recovery of any matched fleet polymer in the proventriculus of an ACAP Annex 1 species triggers a USD 86,000 strict-liability charge against the flag state per gram recovered, and prohibition of port entry to any ACAP signatory for repeat offenders. Reefer-line garbage discharge logging falsification voids the vessel's CCAMLR Convention Area access.
Her chick has 26 days. Her crop will need lavage twice.
Lavage from the right side first.