Reducing sea turtle by‐catch in pelagic longline fisheries

E Gilman, E Zollett, S Beverly, H Nakano… - … and Fisheries, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… of marine turtle populations. Here, we review research on strategies to … sea turtle by-catch.
Due to the state of management regimes in most longline fisheries, strategies to reduce turtle

Pan-Atlantic analysis of the overlap of a highly migratory species, the leatherback turtle, with pelagic longline fisheries

S Fossette, MJ Witt, P Miller… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
fisheries bycatch In order to assess spatial and temporal variation of leatherback susceptibility
to longline fisheries bycatch, we first selected areas having a high fishing-pressure index, …

Leatherback sea turtle Dermochelys coriacea visual capacities and potential reduction of bycatch by pelagic longline fisheries

MA Crognale, SA Eckert, DH Levenson… - Endangered Species …, 2008 - int-res.com
… Can the information gathered in these experiments assist us in reducing the attractiveness
of longline fishing gear to leatherback sea turtles? As noted, swordfish longlines equipped …

Quantifying the effects of fisheries on threatened species: the impact of pelagic longlines on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles

RL Lewison, SA Freeman, LB Crowder - Ecology letters, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… Here we present an integrated approach to fisheries bycatch … sea turtle populations and the
global pelagic longline fishery. … longlines have not been implicated as a source of sea turtle

Nesting population origins of leatherback turtles caught as bycatch in the US pelagic longline fishery

KR Stewart, EL LaCasella, SE Roden, MP Jensen… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
fisheries. This work contributes to the ongoing assessment of threats to leatherback turtles
in … draws attention to the disproportionate number of turtles from Costa Rica being caught in …

Sea turtle bycatch in the Chilean pelagic longline fishery in the southeastern Pacific: opportunities for conservation

M Donoso, PH Dutton - Biological Conservation, 2010 - Elsevier
… Here we present information on incidental capture of sea turtles by the commercial
longline fishery targeting swordfish off the coast of Chile (in Zone 87 FAO), based on 94% trip …

[HTML][HTML] Sea turtle bycatch mitigation in US longline fisheries

Y Swimmer, A Gutierrez, K Bigelow… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
… This study highlights the key variables influencing the probability of sea turtle capture in
pelagic US longline fisheries in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as how these risks have …

Putting longline bycatch of sea turtles into perspective

RL Lewison, LB Crowder - Conservation biology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
turtle mortality. We reviewed the existing data on the relative impact of longline bycatch on
sea turtle … impact of fisheries bycatch on vulnerable sea turtle populations will be incomplete. …

Impact of tuna longline fishery on the sea turtles of Indian seas

SP Varghese, S Varghese, VS Somvanshi - Current Science, 2010 - JSTOR
… The species of sea turtles recorded in the bycatch, in order of … ) turtles. This study provides
quantitative data on the magnitude of sea turtle incidental catch of the tuna longline fishery in …

Incidental capture of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) sea turtles by the pelagic longline fishery off southern Brazil

JE Kotas, S dos Santos, VG de Azevedo, BMG Gallo - 2004 - aquadocs.org
… back sea turtles by the surface longline fishery operating off … captures of sea turtles by
longliners during one longline trip in … , including information concerning leatherback sea turtles, as …