Addressing fisheries bycatch in a changing world

LM Komoroske, RL Lewison - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Fisheries bycatch is a threat to species of marine megafauna across the world's oceans.
Work over the past several decades has greatly advanced our understanding of the species …

Bycatches of endangered, threatened and protected species in marine fisheries

CA Gray, SJ Kennelly - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2018 - Springer
Bycatch remains one of the most significant fisheries issues in the world and its monitoring
and reporting is now expected in many regions. This paper provides a global synthesis of …

Global patterns of marine mammal, seabird, and sea turtle bycatch reveal taxa-specific and cumulative megafauna hotspots

RL Lewison, LB Crowder, BP Wallace… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Recent research on ocean health has found large predator abundance to be a key element
of ocean condition. Fisheries can impact large predator abundance directly through targeted …

Benefits, concerns, and solutions of fishing for tunas with drifting fish aggregation devices

M Pons, D Kaplan, G Moreno, L Escalle… - Fish and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) are human‐made floating objects widely used by
tropical tuna purse seine (PS) fisheries to increase catch of target species. However, dFAD …

[LIBRO][B] The sensory ecology of birds

GR Martin - 2017 - books.google.com
Birds are renowned for their exceptional vision and the way that this enables them to survive
and navigate the world in such a unique way. However, it is now recognised that avian …

Conservation implications of sea turtle nesting trends: elusive recovery of a globally important loggerhead population

SA Ceriani, P Casale, M Brost, EH Leone… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding population status and trends is important for develo** and evaluating
management and conservation actions for threatened species. Monitoring population status …

Marine turtle regional management units 2.0: an updated framework for conservation and research of wide-ranging megafauna species

BP Wallace, ZA Posnik, BJ Hurley… - Endangered Species …, 2023 - int-res.com
Delineating spatial boundaries that accurately encompass complex, often cryptic, life
histories of highly migratory marine megafauna can be a significant conservation challenge …

Plastic ingestion in oceanic-stage loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) off the North Atlantic subtropical gyre

CK Pham, Y Rodríguez, A Dauphin, R Carriço… - Marine Pollution …, 2017 - Elsevier
Juvenile oceanic-stage sea turtles are particularly vulnerable to the increasing quantity of
plastic coming into the oceans. In this study, we analysed the gastrointestinal tracts of 24 …

Status review of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) under the Engangered Species Act

JA Seminoff, CD Allen, GH Balazs, PH Dutton, T Eguchi… - 2015 - repository.library.noaa.gov
The Green Turtle Status Review Team (SRT) has undertaken a review consistent with
section 4 (a)(1) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), using the best available scientific …

Global patterns of illegal marine turtle exploitation

JF Senko, KM Burgher… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Human exploitation of wildlife for food, medicine, curios, aphrodisiacs, and spiritual artifacts
represents a mounting 21st‐century conservation challenge. Here, we provide the first …