Impacts of pelagic longline fisheries on sea turtles in the Santos Basin, Brazil
Rodrigo Malta Vanucci,
Daphne Wrobel Goldberg,
Andrea Maranho
et al.
Abstract:Strand monitoring is valuable for identifying human-caused threats to sea turtles but has limitations in fully understanding their overall impact. To address this gap, we conducted a survey to examine sea turtle interactions with longline fisheries, focusing on the types of hooks used for different target fish species. The study aimed to determine the prevalence of sea turtles entangled with hooks in these fisheries and to investigate seasonal and spatial variations in strandings. From August 2015 to December … Show more
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