Entries for tag "bycatch"
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wallacejnichols
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Sept. 26, 2012
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Erik Vance, for the Pulitzer Center When Hoyt Peckham first arrived on the sprawling flat beaches of Magdalena Bay, Mexico, in 2001, what he saw was one of the most stunning surf beaches he had ever encountered. Lonely stretches of pristine barrier island sand stretched on for 20 miles with…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 17, 2007
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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…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 17, 2007
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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,…
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wallacejnichols
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April 15, 2007
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Introduction A solitary loggerhead turtle in the middle of a vast ocean may not sound like an adventure film, but stick with her. Along her 9,000-mile voyage to nest, our loggerhead tour guide in Voyage of the Lonely Turtle encounters hammerhead sharks, deep ocean tempests, and man-made death traps in…
