Sea turtle consumption and black market trade in Baja California Sur, Mexico

Endangered Species Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Mancini, Agnese ^a   Koch, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Consumption; Illegal trade; Mortality; Northwest Mexico; Poaching; Sea turtle; Wild meat

Indexed keywords

BLACK MARKET; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; POACHING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE;

BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 64049107566     PISSN: 18635407     EISSN: 16134796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esr00165     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Abernethy K, Ntsame Effa E (2002) Gestion de la filière viande de brousse. Rapport pour la Direction de la Faune et Chasse, Libreville
2. Alvarado-Diaz J, Figueroa A (1990) The ecological recovery of sea turtles of Michoacan, Mexico. Special attention: the black turtle, Chelonia agassizii. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Albuquerque, NM
3. Anonymous (1996) Título vigésimo quinto. Delitos contra el ambiente y la gestión ambiental. Mexico City
4. Bennett EL, Robinson JG (2000) Hunting of wildlife in tropical forests: Iimplications for biodiversity and forest peoples. Environment Department Papers, Biodiversity Series no. 76, World Bank, Washington, DC
5. Bennett EL, Eves H, Robinson J, Wilkie D (2002) Why is eating bushmeat a biodiversity crisis? Conserv Pract 3:28-29
6. Bradburn NM, Rips LJ, Shevell SK (1987) Answering autobiographical questions - the impact of memory and inference on surveys. Science 236:157-161
7. Caldwell DK (1963) The sea turtle fishery of Baja California, Mexico. Calif Fish Game 49:140-151
8. Chaloupka M (2002) Stochastic simulation modelling of southern Great Barrier Reef green turtle population dynamics. Ecol Model 148:79-109
9. Cliffton K, Cornejo DO, Felger RS (1995) Sea turtles of the Pacific coast of Mexico. In: Bjorndal KA (ed) Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, DC
10. Comisión Nacional de Acuacultura y Pesca (CONAPESCA) (2003) Anuario estadistico de Acuacultura y Pesca 2003. CONAPESCA, Mazatlán
11. Crouse DT (1999) The consequences of delayed maturity in a human-dominated world. Life in the slow lane: ecology and conservation of long-lived marine animals. Am Fish Soc Symp 23:195-202
12. Crouse DT, Crowder LB, Caswell H (1987) A staged-based population model for loggerhead sea turtles and implication for conservation. Ecology 68:1412-1423
13. Crowder LB, Crouse DT, Heppell SS, Martin TH (1994) Predicting the impact of turtle excluder devices on loggerhead sea turtle populations. Ecol Appl 4:437-445
14. Dawson D (1945) The savage Seris of Sonora I. Sci Mon 60(3):193-202
15. Delgado S, Nichols WJ (2005) Saving sea turtles from the ground up: awakening sea turtle conservation in northwestern Mexico. Marit Stud 4(1):89-104
16. Diario Oficial de la Federación Mexico (1990) Acuerdo que establece veda para todas las especies y subspecies de tortugas marinas en aguas de jurisdicción nacional de los litorales del Oceano Pacifico, Golfo de Mexico y Mar Caraibe. Diario official de la Federación, Mexico, May 31, 1990, p 21-22
17. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) Fishery Department, Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Unit (2000) FISHSTAT Plus: universal software for fishery statistical time series. Version 3.2
18. Felger RS, Moser MB (1985) People of the desert and sea. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ
19. Fleming EH (2001) Swimming against the tide: recent surveys of exploitation, trade, and management of marine turtles in the northern Caribbean. TRAFFIC North America, Washington, DC
20. Garcia-Martínez S, Nichols WJ (2000) Sea turtles of Bahía Magdalena, BCS, Mexico: demand and supply of an endangered species. 10th Conf Int Inst Fish Econ Trade, July 2000, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
21. Gardner SC, Nichols WJ (2001) Assessment of sea turtle mortality rates in the Bahia Magdalena region, BCS, Mexico. Chelonian Conserv Biol 4:197-199
22. Hilaluddin RK, Ghose D (2005) Conservation implications of animal biomass extractions in Northeast India. Animal Biodiv Cons 28:169-179
23. INEGI (2005) Anuario estadistico del estado de Baja California Sur. Available at: www.inegi.org.mx/inegi/default.aspx?s=est&c= 10382&e=&i=<
24. IUCN (2007) IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved May 01, 2007. www.iucnredlist.org/ (accessed on 1 May 2007)
25. Janis IL (1972) Victims of groupthink. Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, MA
26. Jerozolimski A, Peres CA (2003) Bringing home the biggest bacon: a cross-site analysis of the structure of hunter-kill profiles in neotropical forests. Biol Conserv 111:415-425
27. Jones JPG, Andriamarovololona MM, Hockley N, Gibbons JM, Milner-Gulland EJ (2008) Testing the use of interviews as a tool for monitoring trends in the harvesting of wild species. J Appl Ecol 45:1205-1212
28. Keane A, Jones JPG, Edwards-Jones G, Milner-Gulland EJ (2008) The sleeping policeman: understanding issues of enforcement and compliance in conservation. Anim Conserv 11:75-82
29. Koch V, Nichols WJ, Peckham H, de la Toba V (2006) Estimates of sea turtle mortality from poaching and bycatch in Bahía Magdalena, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Biol Conserv 128:327-334
30. Koch V, Brook LB, Nichols WJ (2007) Population ecology of the green/ black turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Bahía Magdalena, Mexico. Mar Biol 153:35-46
31. Kuznets S (1955) Economic growth and income inequity. Am Econ Rev 445:1-28
32. Limpus CJ (1992) The hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in Queensland: population structure within a southern Great Barrier Reef feeding ground. Wildl Res 19:489-506
33. Limpus CJ, Limpus DJ (2003) Biology of the loggerhead turtle in western south Pacific foraging areas. In: Bolten AB, Witherington BE (eds) Loggerhead sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, p 93-113
34. Marquez R (1990) Sea turtles of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of sea turtle species known to date. FAO Species Catalogue, FAO Fish Synop 11(125)
35. Marquez R, Peñaflores CS, Villanueva AO, Diaz JF (1982) A model for diagnosis of populations of olive ridleys and green turtles of west Pacific tropical coasts. In: Bjorndal KA (ed) Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, p 153-158
36. Milner-Gulland EJ, Bennett EL, SAMWM Group (2003) Wild meat: the bigger picture. Trends Ecol Evol 18:351-357
37. Nabhan GP (2003) Singing the turtles to sea: the Comcáac (Seri) art and science of reptiles. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
38. Nichols WJ (2003) Biology and conservation of the sea turtles of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. PhD dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
39. Nietschmann B (1995) The cultural context of sea turtle subsistence hunting in the Caribbean and problems caused by commercial exploitation. In: Bjorndal KA (ed) Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, p 439-445
40. O'Donnell J (1974) Green turtle fishery in Baja California waters: history and prospect. Master's thesis, California State University, Northridge, CA
41. Olguín-Mena M (1990) Las tortugas marinas en la costa oriental de Baja California y costa Occidental de Baja California Sur, México. MS thesis, UABCS, La Paz
42. Peckham H, Nichols WJ (2006) An integrated approach to reducing mortality of North Pacific loggerhead turtles in Baja California Sur, Mexico. In: Kinan I (ed). Proc 2nd Western Pacific Sea Turtle Cooperative Research and Management Workshop. Vol II, North Pacific Loggerhead Sea Turtles. March 2-3, 2005, Honolulu, HI. Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, Honolulu, HI
43. Peckham SH, Maldonado Diaz D, Walli A, Ruiz G, Crowder LB, Nichols WJ (2007) Small-scale fisheries bycatch jeopardizes endangered Pacific loggerhead turtles. PLoS One 2:e1041
44. Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (PROFECO) (2008) Quien es quien en los precios. Available online at: http://www.profeco.gob.mx/ precios/df/carnes.asp (accessed April 2008)
45. Safina C, Gilman E, Nichols WJ (2005) Twine and the ancient mariners - albatross, sea turtles and fishing gears encounters. In: Wildlife Conservation Society (ed) State of the wild 2006: a global portrait of wildlife, wildlands, and oceans. Island Press, Washington, DC
46. Secretaria de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo rural, Pesca y Alimentación (SAGARPA) (2007) Anuario estadistico de pesca: Permisionarios de embarcaciones menores y mayores. CONAPESCA, Mazatlán
47. Scammon CM (1970) Journal aboard the bark Ocean Bird on a whaling voyage to Scammon's Lagon, winter of 1858-1859. Henderson DA (ed) Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, CA
48. Sheil D, Wunder S (2002) The value of tropical forest to local communities: complications, caveats, and cautions. Conserv Ecol 6:9
49. Tambiah C (1999) Interviews and market surveys. In: Eckert KL, Bjorndal KA, Abreu-Grobois FA, Donnelly M (eds) Research and management techniques for the conservation of sea turtles. IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group Publ. No. 4, IUCN, Gland
50. Thomson DA, Findley L, Kerstich A (1979) Common reef fishes from the sea of Cortez. John Wiley & Sons, New York
51. Zaytsev O, Cervantes-Duarte R, Montante O, Gallegos-Garcia A (2003) Coastal upwelling activity on the Pacific shelf of the Baja California peninsula. J Oceanogr 59:489-502