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Article: The physiological effects of multiple forced submergences in loggerhead sea turtles.(Caretta caretta)
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- Fishery Bulletin
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Abstract--Sea turtles are subjected to involuntary submergence and potential mortality due to incidental capture by the commercial shrimp fishing industry. Despite implementation of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) to reduce at-sea mortality, dead stranded turtles continue to be found in near-record numbers along the coasts of the western Atlantic Ocean and northern Gulf of Mexico. Although this mortality may be due to an increase in the number of turtles available to strand, one alternative explanation is that sea turtles are repetitively submerged (as one fishing vessel follows the path of another) in legal TEDs. In the present study, laboratory and field investigations ...
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Article: Origin of immature loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta ...
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... ... Atlantic loggerhead sea turtles have extended and complex ... hatchling loggerhead sea turtles enter the surf and eventually ... in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. These known subpopulations ... Witzell, 1987). Sea turtles may hatch in one country ...
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