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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Whale Rescue | Latest Disentanglement - right whale, Yellowfin
Cape Cod Bay PCCS image taken under NOAA Fisheries authority By early November, PCCS had received over twenty reports of entangled sea turtles ... (likely caused by a combination of factors, including the distribution of turtles, fishing gear and observers). Reports of entangled turtles came in from scientists, fishermen and private boaters and the vast ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Two Leatherback Turtles Disentangled in Cape Waters Wednesday
Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS) freed a leatherback turtle entangled in fishing gear off Kingsbury Beach near Rock Harbor. A recreational fisherman reported the ... call the Marine Animal Entanglement Hotline at 1-800-900-3622 with any sightings of entangled turtles or whales. PCCS thanks Kara Dodge, University of New Hampshire; Connie Merigo, New England ...
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Turtle Walks at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center Rescues and Rehabilitates Injured Sea Turtles and Educates About These Endangered Species
Fishing line takes hundreds of years to break down ... turtle entanglement cases. It may be nearly impossible for an entangled turtles to feed or escape predators. Because they cannot swim well, entangled turtles may be stuck by a boat or caught by a ...
georgiaseaturtlecenter.org
Sable Island Litter
Entangled seals are often seen on the island. The majority are caught in ... , and others in scraps of monofilament net and pieces of plastic strapping. Most of the entangled seals have deep wounds where the entangling material cuts through hide, blubber and flesh. For ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Whale Rescue | Leatherback turtles freed in Cape Cod Bay - June-September, 2004
Throughout the summer of 2004 the PCCS disentanglement team received numerous reports of entangled leatherback sea turtles. While not every report could be verified as a leatherback (despite searches some animals ... be already dead, the PCCS team managed to free four individuals. All of these were entangled in the buoy lines of lobster gear and the success of the disentanglements depended upon ...
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Threats to Marine Turtles - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Threats to Marine Turtles Turtle Species | Marine Threats | Terrestrial Threats | More Info Loggerhead turtle entangled in pound net leader (Caretta caretta) Photo: Mike Tork, NOAA Marine turtles entangled in ... in the Marine Environment Turtles can become entangled in gillnets, pound nets, and the lines associated with longline and trap/pot fishing gear. Turtles entangled in these types of fishing ...
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Olive Ridley Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Lepidochelys. Although other turtles have been documented nesting in groups, no other turtles (marine or otherwise) have been observed nesting in such mass numbers ... ridley mortality in the Eastern Indian Ocean. On February 17, 2002, 205 dead olive ridleys entangled in a section of gillnet were washed ashore at Gundalba Beach, Orissa (Wright and Mohanty ...
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Sea Turtles
States. Among the threats these marine reptiles face are entanglement, habitat loss and hunting. Sea turtles are drowned and killed when caught in fishing gear. Coastal development destroys important nesting sites ... way to the sea even if it wasn't discarded on the beach. Sea turtles may become fatally entangled and often mistake litter for food, causing fatal health problems. Educate others on ...
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the marine turtles
Click here for text based navigation. marine turtles the marine turtles Turtles are an ancient group of reptiles that have witnessed the rise and fall of the dinosaurs. The earliest turtles ... by uncontrolled development; thousands of turtles drown each year after getting entangled in fishing gear, and marine litter and pollution also claim the lives of many turtles. Climate change may also ...
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Turtles in trouble
Entanglement and drowning in fishing gear: All species of turtle are susceptible to accidental capture in fishing gear, a phenomenon known as bycatch, throughout the world's oceans. Turtles become entangled ... and swordfish. At their inshore foraging grounds they are caught by trawlers, gill nets or entangled in the buoy ropes of static gear such as prawn creels, tangle nets and ...
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