October 17, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - A ten year study, co-authored by Wallace J. Nichols and released today, "reveals that small-scale fishing operations are a greater threat to the survival of north Pacific loggerhead sea turtles than large industrial fishing operations. The species is seriously threatened." The peer-reviewed research was…
by Sheril Kirshenbaum Never underestimate the impact of the little guys… at least when it comes to fishing practices and North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles. Today in PLoS one, Ocean Conservancy Scientist Wallace J. Nichols and University of California (UC)-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham report that small-scale operations are a…
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…
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…
