Editing Procellariiformes (section)

===Exploitation===
[[File:Bird's Eggs from Sea-Cliffs tail-piece in Bewick British Birds 1804.jpg|thumb|left|220px|A tail-piece [[wood engraving|engraving]] in [[Thomas Bewick|Bewick]]'s ''[[A History of British Birds]]'', showing men exploiting birds nesting on sea cliffs, 1804]]

Albatrosses and petrels have been important food sources for humans for as long as people have been able to reach their remote breeding colonies. Amongst the earliest-known examples of this is the remains of shearwaters and albatrosses along with those of other seabirds in 5,000-year-old [[midden]]s in [[Chile]],<ref name=j9/> although it is likely that they were exploited prior to this. Since then, many other marine cultures, both subsistence and industrial, have exploited procellariiforms, in some cases almost to [[extinction]]. Some cultures continue to harvest shearwaters (a practice known as [[muttonbirding]]); for example, the [[Māori people|Māori]] of [[New Zealand]] use a sustainable traditional method known as ''[[kaitiaki]]tanga''. In Alaska, residents of [[Kodiak Island]] harpoon [[short-tailed albatross]]es, ''Diomedea albatrus'', and until the late 1980s residents of [[Tristan Island (Antarctica)|Tristan Island]] in the [[Indian Ocean]] harvested the eggs of the [[Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross|Yellow-nosed Mollymawks]], ''Diomedea chlororhynchos'', and [[sooty albatross]]es, ''Phoebetria fusca''.<ref name="Double" /> Albatrosses and petrels are also now tourist draws in some locations, such as [[Taiaroa Head]]. While such exploitation is non-consumptive, it can have deleterious effects that need careful management to protect both the birds and the tourism.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Higham |first=J. |year=1998 |title=Tourists and albatrosses: The dynamics of tourism at the Northern Royal Albatross Colony, Taiaroa Head, New Zealand |journal=Tourism Management |volume=19 |issue=6 |pages=521–531 |doi=10.1016/S0261-5177(98)00054-5}}</ref>

The English naturalist [[William Yarrell]] wrote in 1843 that "ten or twelve years ago, [[John Gould|Mr. Gould]] exhibited twenty-four [storm petrels], in a large dish, at one of the evening meetings of the [[Zoological Society of London|Zoological Society]]".<ref>{{cite book | title=A History of British Birds |volume= III | publisher=John Van Voorst | year=1843 | author=Yarrell, William| author-link=William Yarrell | pages=525}}</ref>

The engraver [[Thomas Bewick]] wrote in 1804 that "[[Thomas Pennant|Pennant]], speaking of those [birds] which breed on, or inhabit, the [[Isle of St Kilda]], says—'No bird is of so much use to the islanders as this: the [[northern fulmar|Fulmar]] supplies them with oil for their lamps, down for their beds, a delicacy for their tables, a balm for their wounds, and a medicine for their distempers.'"<ref>{{cite book | title=A History of British Birds, volume II, Water Birds | author=Bewick, Thomas | author-link=Thomas Bewick | year=1847|edition=revised | page=226| title-link=A History of British Birds }}</ref> A photograph by [[George Washington Wilson]] taken about 1886 shows a "view of the men and women of St Kilda on the beach dividing up the catch of Fulmar".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R/935LPQ7V1PJNRMHJXAFL3YNEU9A26DHRH4JK6P1CY15UC3XCIN-00058 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130419125559/http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R/935LPQ7V1PJNRMHJXAFL3YNEU9A26DHRH4JK6P1CY15UC3XCIN-00058 | url-status=dead | archive-date=April 19, 2013 | title=Dividing the Catch of Fulmar St Kilda | publisher=Aberdeen Library Special Collections and Museums | work=GB 0231 MS 3792/C7187 6188 | author-link=George Washington Wilson | date=2 December 1901 | orig-year=1886 | access-date=9 March 2013 | author=Wilson, George Washington }}</ref> James Fisher, author of ''The Fulmar'' (1952)<ref>{{cite book | title=The Fulmar | publisher=Collins | author=Fisher, J. | year=1952}}</ref> calculated that every person on St Kilda consumed over 100 fulmars each year; the meat was their staple food, and they caught around 12,000 birds annually. However, when the human population left St Kilda in 1930, the population did not suddenly grow.<ref name=BirdsBritFulmar>Cocker, 2005. pp. 12–18</ref>