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…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ocean Conservancy Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols and University of California (UC)-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 released on October…
Peckham, SH, D Maldonado Diaz, A Walli, G Ruiz, LB Crowder, and WJ Nichols. 2007. Small-scale fisheries bycatch jeopardizes endangered Pacific loggerhead turtles, PLoS ONE 2: 10. Abstract Background Although bycatch of industrial-scale fisheries can cause declines in migratory megafauna including seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles, the impacts of…
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,…
Listen to: Love for the Ocean Caroline is joined by long-time ally, Marine Acoustician Michael Stocker www.ocr.org and senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy, ardent ocean activist Wallace J. Nichols www.wallacejnichols.org that our willingness and wonder to work with the seas may eclipse our rudeness as a species, at this…
