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Mon Feb 22, 2016, 12:23 PM Feb 2016

Gaps in reporting leave turtles vulnerable February 22, 2016

A James Cook University study has called for a change in the way we manage bycatch - to better monitor the unintentional catching of sea turtles by commercial fishers.

JCU's Kimberly Riskas led a project that examined more than 10 years of records on turtle bycatch.
"Turtle habitat often spans multiple management jurisdictions. But most fisheries management agencies will monitor bycatch within a single fishery or a single year, without adding records together to determine how many turtles are being caught in total," she said.
Ms Riskas said the findings show a need for bycatch records to be pooled across fisheries and states, as well as over time, to better measure the effect on turtles.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-02-gaps-turtles-vulnerable.html#jCp

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