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Endangered species: Pan-Atlantic leatherback turtle movements.
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posted on 2004-06-03, 00:00 authored by Graeme HaysGraeme Hays, J D R Houghton, A E MyersThe overall extent of habitat use by leatherback turtles in the North Atlantic, and hence their possible interactions with longline fisheries, is unknown. Here we use long-term satellite telemetry to reveal that leatherbacks range throughout the North Atlantic, indicating that closing limited areas to longline fisheries will probably have only partial success in reducing turtle bycatch. Although turtles dive very deeply on occasion (one descended to a maximum depth of 1,230 metres, which represents the deepest dive ever recorded for a reptile), they generally restrict their diving to less than 250 metres, which increases the chance that they will encounter longline hooks.
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NatureVolume
429Issue
6991Pagination
522 - 522Publisher
Nature Publishing GroupLocation
EnglandPublisher DOI
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0028-0836eISSN
1476-4687Language
engPublication classification
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