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Untangling the impacts of nets in the southeastern Pacific: Rapid assessment of marine turtle bycatch to set conservation priorities in small-scale fisheries

Fisheries Research, 2018
Bycatch of marine megafauna by small-scale fisheries is of growing global concern. The southeastern Pacific sustains extensive fisheries that are important sources of food and employment for millions of people.
J. Alfaro‐Shigueto, Jeffrey C. Mangel, Jodie J. Darquea, Miguel Donoso, A. Baquero, Philip D. Doherty, B. Godley   +6 more
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Saving sea turtles: the evolution of the IUCN Marine Turtle Group

Endeavour, 2005
When Peter Scott became chairman of the Survival Service Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) in 1963, he invited Archie Carr to chair the Marine Turtle Group (MTG). A leading authority on the ecology and conservation of sea turtles, Carr believed that the MTG could be the first international
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Two decades of monitoring in marine debris ingestion in loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, from the western Mediterranean.

Environmental Pollution, 2019
Anthropogenic marine debris is one of the major worldwide threats to marine ecosystems. The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) has established a protocol for data collection on marine debris from the gut contents of the loggerhead sea turtle ...
F. Domènech, Francisco Javier Aznar, J. Raga, Jesús Tomás   +3 more
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Marine Turtles of the Red Sea

2015
Marine turtles are long-lived reptiles that appeared on Earth in the late Triassic. There are seven extant species worldwide, five of which can be found in the Red Sea: the green turtle, the hawksbill turtle, the loggerhead turtle, the olive ridley turtle and the leatherback turtle.
Agnese Mancini, Islam Elsadek, Magdy A. N. El-Alwany   +2 more
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Epizoan Communities on Marine Turtles

Marine Ecology, 1985
Abstract. Marine turtles harbour a variety of epizoa, some of which are specific to these hosts, but shelled gastropod and bivalve mollusks were previously unrecorded on marine turtles. Thousands of turtles of five species from all major oceans were examined.
J. Frazier, D. Margarttoulis, K. Muldoon, C. W. Potter, J. Rosewater, C. Ruckdeschel, S. Salas   +6 more
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Comparing quantity of marine debris to loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting and non-nesting emergence activity on Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA.

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2019
Marine debris is defined as any manmade item, commonly plastics, which ends up in the ocean regardless of the source. Debris found along coastlines can cause harm or even death to nesting and hatchling sea turtles through ingestion, entrapment, or ...
J. Martin, J. Jambeck, Breanna L Ondich, T. Norton   +3 more
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MARINE TURTLE CULTURE ‐ AN OVERVIEW

Proceedings of the annual meeting - World Mariculture Society, 1974
ABSTRACTThe general background and present status of this new branch of maricultural science are briefly surveyed, with a description of the only large industrial complex now in existence. Progress in turtle mariculture to the present is summarized and some outstanding scientific problems requiring solution are delineated.
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Marine turtle auditory behavior

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1993
Auditory capacities of the Atlantic Loggerhead (Carettac. caretta) were assessed to develop a sound repelling system to be used in dangerous areas. To estimate sensitivity, auditory brain-stem responses (ABRs) were recorded in ten animals to clicks and tones (250, 500, 750, and 1000 Hz).
S. Moein, M. Lenhardt, D. Barnard, J. Keinath, J. Musick   +4 more
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An outbreak of salmonellosis linked to a marine turtle.

The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health, 1999
In September 1998, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred in a coastal Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory over a seven day period. An investigation was conducted by the Center for Disease Control, Territory Health Services. Thirty-six cases were detected and 17% (n=6) were hospitalized.
O'Grady, Kerry Ann, Krause, Vicki
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Solving the riddles of marine turtles

Five to Eleven, 2004
Develop literacy and thinking skills with this lesson based on two contrasting texts by Martin Strong, literacy co-ordinator at Ulcombe CE Primary School, Maidstone, Kent.
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