Turtles on the edge: Movement of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) along oceanic fronts, spanning longline fishing grounds in the central North Pacific, 1997-1998

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-82

  Polovina, Jeffrey J ^a   Kobayashi, Donald R ^a   Parker, Denise M ^b   Seki, Michael P ^a   Balazs, George H ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Caretta caretta; Central North Pacific; Loggerhead turtles; Longline fishery; Satellite remote sensing; Subtropical front

Indexed keywords

CATCH RATE; CHLOROPHYLL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOVEMENT PATTERN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEA TURTLE; UNITED STATES;

BYCATCH; LONGLINING; MOVEMENT; OCEANIC FRONT; TURTLE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

CARETTA CARETTA;

EID: 0034013038     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.2000.00123.x     Document Type: Article

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