Diving behavior and delayed mortality of olive ridley sea turtles Lepidochelys olivacea after their release from longline fishing gear

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 323, Issue , 2006, Pages 253-261

  Swimmer, Yonat ^a   Arauz, Randall ^b   McCracken, Marti ^a   McNaughton, Lianne ^c   Ballestero, Jorge ^b   Musyl, Mike ^c   Bigelow, Keith ^a   Brill, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b PRETOMA   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern tropical Pacific Ocean; Marine turtles; Pop off satellite archival tags; PSATs

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOR; FISHING GEAR; MORTALITY; TAGGING; TURTLE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; LEPIDOCHELYS OLIVACEA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33750620666     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps323253     Document Type: Article

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