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
Fisheries bycatch is a critical source of mortality for rapidly declining populations of
leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea. We integrated use-intensity distributions for 135 …

Meta-analysis of movements in Atlantic leatherback turtles during the nesting season: conservation implications

JY Georges, S Fossette, A Billes, S Ferraroli… - Marine Ecology …, 2007 - int-res.com
Despite decades of conservation efforts on the nesting beaches, the critical status of
leatherback turtles shows that their survival predominantly depends on our ability to reduce …

Tracking leatherback turtles from the world's largest rookery: assessing threats across the South Atlantic

MJ Witt, E Augowet Bonguno… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite extensive work carried out on leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the
North Atlantic and Indo-Pacific, very little is known of the at-sea distribution of this species in …

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 that operate at large spatial scales and with high intensity have the potential to
impact highly migratory species, and it is important to characterize threats to specific …

Identification of high‐use habitat and threats to leatherback sea turtles in northern waters: new directions for conservation

MC James, C Andrea Ottensmeyer, RA Myers - Ecology letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Incidental capture in fisheries threatens many marine vertebrates, however, conservation
cannot be effective without identifying major sources of mortality. For the critically …

A review of the importance of south-east Australian waters as a global hotspot for leatherback turtle foraging and entanglement threat in fisheries

GC Hays, M Morrice, JJ Tromp - Marine Biology, 2023 - Springer
Australia's largest sea turtle is the leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea). Leatherbacks do not
nest, or only rarely, in Australia, and hence receive relatively little research attention. Here …

Global patterns of marine turtle bycatch

BP Wallace, RL Lewison, SL McDonald… - Conservation …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Fisheries bycatch is a primary driver of population declines in several species of marine
megafauna (eg, elasmobranchs, mammals, seabirds, turtles). Characterizing the global …

A long-term decline in the abundance of endangered leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, at a foraging ground in the California Current Ecosystem

SR Benson, KA Forney, JE Moore, EL LaCasella… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pacific leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are critically endangered, and declines
have been documented at multiple nesting sites throughout the Pacific. The western Pacific …

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
Large oceanic migrants play important roles in ecosystems, yet many species are of
conservation concern as a result of anthropogenic threats, of which incidental capture by …

Vulnerability of the Critically Endangered leatherback turtle to fisheries bycatch in the eastern Pacific Ocean. II. Assessment of mitigation measures

SP Griffiths, BP Wallace, V Cáceres… - Endangered Species …, 2024 - int-res.com
Industrial tuna and artisanal fisheries targeting multiple species in the eastern Pacific Ocean
(EPO) interact with the Critically Endangered East Pacific (EP) leatherback turtle …