Critically endangered leatherback turtles tracked to reveal danger zones from industrial fishing
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
One of the biggest threats to critically endangered leatherback turtles is bycatch from industrial fishing in the open oceans. Now, a team of researchers has satellite-tracked 135 leatherbacks with transmitters to determine the turtles’ patterns of movement in the Pacific Ocean. Combined with fisheries data, the researchers entered the information into a computer model to predict bycatch hotspots in the Pacific.