Entries for date "March 2006"

One-armed traveler

Back from a wonderful week of work in Baja, helping out with an Animal Planet film. We shared air and sea with mantas, whales, sea turtles, sharks, sea lions, reef fish...and even an intertidal rattlesnake. It’s good to work with people who are both skilled at what they do and…

Sunset kayak on Taylor Creek

At the end of a productive day of meetings with the Global Bycatch Assessment Project four of us dropped kayaks in Taylor Creek. And we paddled until sunset. It’s been since 1992 that I paddled along the barrier islands in North Carolina as a Duke graduate student. In those days…

WPRFMC: Reducing the Bycatch of Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) in Baja California Sur: Experimental Modification of Gillnets for Fishing Halibut

David Maldonado, Hoyt Peckham, and Wallace J. Nichols. 2006. Reducing the Bycatch of Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) in Baja California Sur: Experimental Modification ofGillnets for Fishing Halibut pp 59-68 In: Kinan, I. (editor) Proceedings of the Second Western Pacific Sea Turtle Cooperative Research and Management Workshop. Volume II: North Pacific…