Longline fishery in Costa Rica kills thousands of sea turtles and sharks

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

The second-most-common catch on Costa Rica's longline fisheries in the last decade was not a commercial fish species. It was olive ridley sea turtles. These lines also caught more green turtles than most species of fish.

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