Modelling post-release mortality of loggerhead sea turtles exposed to the Hawaii-based pelagic longline fishery

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 280, Issue , 2004, Pages 285-293

  Chaloupka, Milani ^a   Parker, Denise ^b   Balazs, George ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Jt Inst for Mar and Atmosph Res   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Failure time modelling; Loggerhead sea turtles; Pelagic longline fisheries; Post release mortality; Satellite telemetry

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHERY; LONGLINING; TURTLE;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 8444244194     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps280285     Document Type: Article

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