Fisheries bycatch is considered the largest threat to sea turtle populations globally.
However, it has been challenging to assess the impact of bycatch on sea turtles in some …

Coastal fisheries have intrinsic importance to the identity, values, and cultures in many of the
communities they occur in. However, despite their importance, incidental capture (ie …

Some of the most productive and diverse marine ecosystems found anywhere in the world
are located along the Atlantic coast of Africa. Industrial fishing fleets from Africa and foreign …

Sea turtles are long lived marine species that are currently endangered because their life
history and population dynamics hinder them from withstanding modern anthropogenic …

Capture by pelagic longline fisheries has been identified as a key threat to turtle
populations. This study is the first assessment of turtle bycatch in the South African pelagic …

Fisheries bycatch is a primary driver of population declines in several species of marine
megafauna (eg, elasmobranchs, mammals, seabirds, turtles). Characterizing the global …

The modernization and intensification of fishing practices have raised the threat to sea
turtles, with escalating unintentional captures endangering turtles of all life stages. In this …

Research efforts on the incidental capture of several species of sea turtles by commercial
longline fishing activities in the South East Atlantic are few. In this paper, we present a by …

Mortality of sea turtles in fisheries bycatch was studied along the coast of Togo, West Africa,
in the period 2012-2015. Five species of sea turtles were observed: lepidochelys olivacea …

Executive summary Bycatch has become one of the most significant issues affecting
fisheries management, and of particular concern is the bycatch of sea turtles by commercial …