Washington, DC. Ocean Conservancy Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols and University of California-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham found surprising results in a recent peer-reviewed loggerhead sea turtle study that Nichols and Peckham conducted over the course of 10 years. The full study will be published on October 17 in the online,…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. ecologists report small-scale fishing poses a greater threat to the survival of loggerhead sea turtles than does industrial fishing operations. Ocean Conservancy Scientist Wallace Nichols and University of California-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham recently completed a 10-year study that found the species is seriously…
Ocean Conservancy Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols and University of California-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham found surprising results in a recent peer-reviewed loggerhead sea turtle study that Nichols and Peckham conducted over the course of 10 years. The full study will be published on 17 October in the online, open-access journal…
When S. Hoyt Peckham first arrived in Baja California, Mexico, to study the foraging ecology of loggerhead turtles, he had a demoralizing surprise: The beaches were littered with the carcasses of the endangered reptiles. After interviewing local fishers, Peckham discovered that they were accidentally catching many of the turtles and…
By Traci Hukill The picture is hideous and unspeakably sad: a half-dozen desiccated loggerhead turtle carcasses on the Baja beach in various agonized postures. The cause of death is drowning; these turtles were by-catch, unintentionally snared by nets or fishing lines set along the sea floor and tossed ashore after…
