Untangling the impacts of nets in the southeastern Pacific: Rapid assessment of marine turtle bycatch to set conservation priorities in small-scale fisheries

J Alfaro-Shigueto, JC Mangel, J Darquea, M Donoso… - Fisheries …, 2018 - Elsevier
Bycatch of marine megafauna by small-scale fisheries is of growing global concern. The
southeastern Pacific sustains extensive fisheries that are important sources of food and …

Simulating drifting fish aggregating device trajectories to identify potential interactions with endangered sea turtles

L Escalle, J Scutt Phillips, J Lopez… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purse‐seine fishers using drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs), mainly built with
bamboo, plastic buoys, and plastic netting, to aggregate and catch tropical tuna, deploy …

Diet and foraging niche flexibility in green and hawksbill turtles

CE Clyde-Brockway, M Heidemeyer, FV Paladino… - Marine Biology, 2022 - Springer
We used stable isotopes to investigate isotopic niche size, overlap, and diet composition in
green (black and yellow morphotype Chelonia mydas; 50.0 to 95.0 cm curved carapace …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite tracking improves conservation outcomes for nesting hawksbill turtles in Solomon Islands

RJ Hamilton, A Desbiens, J Pita, CJ Brown, S Vuto… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The remote tracking of endangered animals is often justified by the application of movement
data to conservation problems, but examples of where scientific findings have rapidly …

Foraging ecology of critically endangered Eastern Pacific hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Gulf of California, Mexico

L Martínez-Estévez, DL Steller, KM Zilliacus… - Marine Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Pacific hawksbill sea turtle population is one of the most endangered
of all sea turtle species. Here, we examine the foraging ecology of 47 hawksbill turtles (40.5 …

Engaging fishers' ecological knowledge for endangered species conservation: four advantages to emphasizing voice in participatory action research

KR Wedemeyer-Strombel, MJ Peterson… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Using social science to integrate local knowledge into conservation science can provide
unique insights to conservation challenges. Especially when baseline data of a vulnerable …

Trialing net illumination as a bycatch mitigation measure for sea turtles in a small-scale gillnet fishery in Ecuador

JJ Darquea, C Ortiz-Alvarez… - Latin american journal …, 2020 - SciELO Chile
In Ecuador, one of the main hazards for threatened marine species, such as sea turtles, is
small-scale fisheries bycatch. At a global scale, currently, bycatch reduction technologies …

Diet of hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Gulf of California, Mexico

KS Reynolds, CM Kurle, DA Croll… - Aquatic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Hawksbill turtles (n= 56) in a foraging ground around Isla San Jose, Gulf of
California, Mexico, were caught, measured, and their skin and scutes sampled. Tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Trophic ecology of hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica: integrating esophageal lavage and stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) …

E Méndez-Salgado, D Chacón-Chaverri… - Latin american journal …, 2020 - SciELO Chile
Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata), considered Critically Endangered, have several
small populations in the Eastern Pacific (EP). Knowledge about their diet and habitat use …

Three decades of stranding data reveal insights into endangered hawksbill sea turtles in Hawai 'i

S Brunson, AR Gaos, IK Kelly, KS Van Houtan… - Endangered Species …, 2022 - int-res.com
Hawksbill sea turtles Eretmochelys imbricata inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands are extremely
rare and listed as endangered under the US Endangered Species Act. The paucity of data …