Turtle bycatch in the pelagic longline fishery off southern Africa

SL Petersen, MB Honig, PG Ryan, R Nel… - African Journal of …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… However, there was no significant difference between the mean bathymetric depth of
longline fishing effort and that of the leatherback turtle distribution (t = –0.59, p = 0.563). Fishing …

Incidental catch of sea turtles by the Brazilian pelagic longline fishery

G Sales, BB Giffoni, PCR Barata - Journal of the Marine Biological …, 2008 - cambridge.org
… Data on longline operations by seasons of the year, kind of … by sea turtles, the spatial and
temporal distribution of longline operations, and the impact of the longline fishery on sea turtles

Pan-Atlantic leatherback turtle movements

GC Hays, JDR Houghton, AE Myers - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
… interaction of leatherback turtles with longline fisheries. It is therefore crucial that new
methodology and fishery management procedures be applied to reduce leatherback turtle bycatch. …

Sea turtle and pelagic fish sensory biology: developing techniques to reduce sea turtle bycatch in longline fisheries

Y Swimmer, RW Brill - 2006 - repository.library.noaa.gov
sea turtles in pelagic longline fisheries is of great concern to environmental groups, the fishing
industry, and fisheries … Regulatory measures to protect sea turtles in both the Pacific and …

Where leatherback turtles meet fisheries

S Ferraroli, JY Georges, P Gaspar, YL Maho - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
… on leatherback turtles nesting in French Guiana (n = 29 turtles) and Suriname (n = 3; turtles
H, J … This is also where pelagic, longline fishing boats aggregate 5,6 and take a number of …

Predicting bycatch hotspots for endangered leatherback turtles on longlines in the Pacific Ocean

JH Roe, SJ Morreale, FV Paladino… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Relative interaction indices for leatherback turtles and longline fisheries in the Pacific
Ocean within 5 × 5 grid cells. Values derived from the interaction index equation represent the …

Reducing sea turtle interactions in the Hawaii-based longline swordfish fishery

E Gilman, D Kobayashi, T Swenarton, N Brothers… - Biological …, 2007 - Elsevier
… Assessment of turtle avoidance measures in the Hawaii longline swordfish fishery … Research
on methods to avoid sea turtles in pelagic longline fisheries has been initiated only recently. …

Circle hook effectiveness for the mitigation of sea turtle bycatch and capture of target species in a Brazilian pelagic longline fishery

G Sales, BB Giffoni, FN Fiedler… - Aquatic …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… caretta) and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) sea turtles. … mortality of sea turtles in the
Brazilian pelagic longline fishery, … rates for loggerhead turtles of 55% and for leatherbacks of 65…

Behavioral responses of sea turtles to lightsticks used in longline fisheries

JH Wang, LC Boles, B Higgins… - Animal …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… of longline fisheries on sea turtle populations have included seasonal and area fishing
closures, attempts to decrease the mortality of captured turtlesfisheries, a reduction of sea turtle

Investigation of plastic debris ingestion by four species of sea turtles collected as bycatch in pelagic Pacific longline fisheries

KE Clukey, CA Lepczyk, GH Balazs, TM Work… - Marine Pollution …, 2017 - Elsevier
… tracts of 55 sea turtles from Pacific longline fisheries from 2012 to 2016 … longline capture
locations of sea turtles sampled in this study. Olive ridley turtles (brown, n = 37), green turtles