Entries for tag "Baja California"
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Jan. 9, 2000
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by Melissa Paxton, Baja Life Magazine (January 2000) The tides may be truly be changing along both coasts of the Baja Peninsula for the five endangered species of sea turtle who claim Baja’s waters as home. Against all odds, many of the fishermen once known to hunt these turtles are…
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July 19, 1999
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Like their cousin the tortoise, sea turtles may take their time, but they are remarkably persistent, according to new evidence from an Earthwatch sponsored researcher. A tag was recovered in Baja, Mexico, from the flipper of a Loggerhead sea turtle that was tagged in Japan. The tag confirms that endangered…
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Nov. 1, 1998
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By Wendee Holtcamp "Ah Maria! Ah Maria!" Juan calls excitedly from the bow of his 18-foot fishing panga, the Caribbean Queen. We're just outside of Baja's Magdalena Bay, and I wonder if Juan is exclaiming jubilant Hail Mary's, when the reason for his excitement comes into view — a domed…
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April 1, 1998
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Resendiz, A., Resendiz, B., Nichols, WJ., Seminoff, JA., Kamezaki, N., First confirmed east-west transpacific movement of a loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, released in Baja California, Mexico, Pacific Science, Volume 52, Number 2, Pages 151-153, April 1998. In July 1994 a loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) was released from the central…
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Jan. 11, 1998
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Nichols, WJ, JA Seminoff and A Resendiz. 1998. Plastic Rototags May Be Linked To Sea Turtle Bycatch. Marine Turtle Newsletter 79:20-21. PLASTIC "ROTOTAGS" MAY BE LINKED TO SEA TURTLE BYCATCH Throughout the course of our investigations of black [Eastern Pacific Green] sea turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizii) ecology in Bahia de…
