Novel use of a shark model to elicit innate behavioral responses in sea turtles: Application to bycatch reduction in commercial fisheries

Chelonian Conservation and Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 237-246

  Bostwick, Angela ^a,b   Higgins, Benjamin M ^c   Landry, André M ^a,b   Mccracken, Marti L ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Southeast Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bycatch reduction; Fishery interaction; Gear modification; Predator avoidance; Reptilia; Sea turtle; Testudines

Indexed keywords

CHELONIIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84914812731     PISSN: 10718443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2744/CCB-1110.1     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. ALCOCK, J. 2005. The Development of Behavior. Animal Behavior. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.
2. AMO, L., LOPEZ, P., AND MARTIN, J. 2004. Wall lizards combine chemical and visual cues of ambush snake predators to avoid overestimating risk inside refuges. Animal Behavior 67:647-653.
3. BRANDER, K. 2008. Tackling the old familiar problems of pollution, habitat alteration and overfishing will help with adapting to climate change. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56:1957-1958.
4. BROWN, G.E., BONGIORNO, T., DICAPUA, D.M., IVAN, L.I., AND ROH, E. 2006. Effects of group size on the threat-sensitive response to varying concentrations of chemical alarm cues by juvenile convict cichlids. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:1-8.
5. BULOVA, S.J. 1994. Ecological correlates of population and individual variation in antipredator behavior of two species of desert lizards. Copeia 1994:980-992.
6. CONSTANTINO, M.A. AND SALMON, M. 2003. Role of chemical and visual cues in food recognition by leatherback posthatchlings (Dermochelys coriacea L). Zoology 106:173-181.
7. COOPER, W.E., J R. AND PEREZ-MALLADO, V. 2004. Tradeoffs between escape behavior and foraging opportunity by the balearic lizard (Podarcus lilfordi). Herpetologica 60:321-324.
8. COOPER, W.E., JR. AND STANKOWICH, T. 2010. Prey or predator? Body size of an approaching animal affects decisions to attack or escape. Behavioral Ecology 21:1278-1284.
9. DAWOUD, M.A. AND AL MULLA, M.M. 2012. Environmental impacts of seawater desalination: Arabian Gulf case study. International Journal of Environment and Sustainability 1:22-37.
10. DOWNES, S. 2001. Trading heat and food for safety: costs of predator avoidance in a lizard. Ecology 82:2870-2881.
11. DUGATKIN, L.A. AND GODIN, J.-G.J. 1992. Prey approaching predators: a cost-benefit perspective. Annales Zoologici Fennici 29:233-252.
12. FINKBEINER, E.M., WALLACE, B.P., LEWISON, R.I., MOORE, J.E., CROWDER, L.B., AND READ, A.J. 2011. Cumulative impacts of sea turtle bycatch in US fisheries from 1990-2007. Biological Conservation 144:2719-2727.
13. FOSTER, D.G., EPPERLY, S.P., SHAH, A.K., AND WATSON, J.W. 2012. Evaluation of hook and bait type on the catch rates in the western North Atlantic Ocean pelagic longline fishery. Bulletin of Marine Science 88:529-545.
14. GILMAN, E., CLARKE, S., BROTHERS, N., ALFARO-SHIGUETO, J., MANDELMAN, J., MANGEL, J., PETERSON, F., PIOVANO, S., THOMSON, N., DALZELL, P., DONONSO, M., GOREN, M., AND WERNER, T. 2008. Shark interactions in pelagic longline fisheries. Marine Policy 32:1-18.
15. GILMAN, E., GEARHART, J., PRICE, B., ECKERT, S., MILLIKEN, H., WANG, J., SWIMMER, Y., SHIODE, D., ABE, O., PECKHAM, H., CHALOUPKA, M., HALL, M., MANGEL, J., ALFARO-SHIGUETO, J., DALZELL, P., AND ISHIZAKI, A. 2009. Mitigating sea turtle bycatch in coastal passive net fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 11:57-88.
16. GILMAN, E. AND LUNDIN, C. 2009. Minimizing bycatch of sensitive species groups in marine capture fisheries: lessons from commercial tuna fisheries. In Grafton, Q., Hillborn, R., Squires, D., Tait, M., and Williams, M. (Eds.). Handbook of Marine Fisheries Conservation and Management. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 150-164.
17. GILMAN, E., ZOLLETT, E., BEVERLY, S., NAKANO, H., DAVIS, K., SHIODE, D., DALZELL, P., AND KINAN, I. 2006. Reducing sea turtle bycatch rates in the pelagic longline fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 7:2-23.
18. HATAWAY, B.D. AND MITCHELL, J.F. 2001. Report on gear evaluations to mitigate sea turtle capture and mortality on pelagic longlines using captive reared sea turtles. Pascagoula, MS: US Department of Commerce, pp. 1-19.
19. HEITHAUS, M.R., FRID, A., AND DILL, L.M. 2002. Shark-inflicted injury frequencies, escape ability, and habitat use of green and loggerhead turtles. Marine Biology 140:229-236.
20. HEPPELL, S.S., CROWDER, L.B., CROUSE, D.T., EPPERLY, S.P., AND FRAZER, N.B. 2003. Population models for Atlantic Loggerheads. In: Bolten, A.B. and Witherington, B.E. (Eds.). Loggerhead Sea Turtles. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 255-273.
21. HIGGINS, B.M. 2003. Sea turtle husbandry. In: Lutz, P., Musick, J., and Wyneken, J. (Eds.). Biology of Sea Turtles. Volume II. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 411-440.
22. HIGGINS, B.M. 2006. Shark Decoy Experiments. US Department of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memor. NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-7, pp. 77-86.
23. KELLY, A.H. 2011. Seawater desalination: climate change adaptation strategy or contributor? Ecology Law Currents 38:40-50.
24. LATTEMANN, S. AND HOPNER, T. 2008. Environmental impact and impact assessment of seawater desalination. Desalination 220:1-15.
25. LEWISON, R.L. AND CROWDER, D.B. 2007. Putting longline bycatch of sea turtles into perspective. Conservation Biology 21:79-86.
26. LEWISON, R.L., FREEMAN, S.A., AND CROWDER, L.B. 2004. Quantifying the effects of fisheries on threatened species: the impact of pelagic longlines on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles. Ecology Letters 7:221-231.
27. MANLY, B.F.J. 2007. Randomization, Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods in Biology. Third edition. London: Chapman and Hall/CRC.
28. MARQUEZ, M.R. 1990. Sea turtles of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of sea turtle species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis. 125:1-81.
29. MARSH, R.E., ERICKSON, W.E., AND SALMON, T.P. 1992. Scarecrows and predator models for frightening birds from specific areas. Proceedings of the 15th Vertebrate Pest Conference 1992.
30. MASON, J.R. AND CLARK, L. 1996. Grazing repellency of methyl anthranilate to snow geese is enhanced by a visual cue. Crop Protection 15:97-100.
31. MOTT, C. AND WYNEKEN, J. 2008. Shark silhouettes as a sea turtle deterrent: an observational study. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 19-26 January 2008.
32. READ, A.J. 2007. Do circle hooks reduce the mortality of sea turtles in pelagic longlines? A review of recent experiments. Biological Conservation 135:155-169.
33. ROBERTS, D.A., JOHNSTON, E.L., AND KNOTT, N.A. 2010. Impacts of desalination plant discharges on the marine environment: a critical review of published studies. Water Research 44:5117-5128.
34. SENKO, J., WHITE, E.R., HEPPELL, S.S., AND GERBER, L.R. 2014. Comparing bycatch mitigation strategies for vulnerable marine megafauna. Animal Conservation 17:5-18.
35. SINCLAIR, A.R.E. AND ARCESE, P. 1995. Population consequences of predation-sensitive foraging: the Serengeti wildebeest. Ecology 76:882-891.
36. SOUTHWOOD, A., FRITSCHES, K., BRILL, R., AND SWIMMER, Y. 2008. Sound, chemical, and light detection in sea turtles and pelagic fishes: sensory-based approaches to bycatch reduction in longline fisheries. Endangered Species Research 5:225-238.
37. SOUTHWOOD, A.L., HIGGINS, B., BRILL, R., AND SWIMMER, Y. 2007. Chemoreception in loggerhead sea turtles: an assessment of the feasibility of using chemical deterrents to prevent sea turtle interactions with longline fishing gear. NOAA Tech. Memor. NMFS-PIFSC-10.
38. SWIMMER, Y. AND BRILL, R. 2006. Sea turtle and pelagic fish sensory biology: Developing techniques to reduce sea turtle bycatch in longline fisheries. US Department of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memor. NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-7.
39. WALLACE, B.P, COTT, C.Y., DIMATTEO, A.D., LEE, T., CROWDER, L.B., AND LEWISON, R.L. 2013. Impacts of fisheries bycatch on marine turtle populations worldwide: toward conservation and research priorities. Ecosphere 4:1-49.
40. WALLACE, B.P., HEPPELL, S.S., LEWISON, R.L., KELEZ, S., AND CROWDER, L.B. 2008. Impacts of fisheries bycatch on loggerhead turtles worldwide inferred from reproductive value analyses. Journal of Applied Ecology 45:1076-1085.
41. WALLACE, B.P., LEWISON, R.L., MCDONALD, S.L., MCDONALD, R.K., KOT, C.Y., KELEZ, S., BJORKLAND, R.K., FINKBEINER, E.M., HELMBRECHT, S., AND CROWDER, L.B. 2010. Global patterns of marine turtle bycatch in fisheries. Conservation Letters 3:131-142.
42. WANG, J., BARKAN, J., FISLER, S., GODINEZ-REYES, C., AND SWIMMER, Y. 2013. Developing ultraviolet illumination of gillnets as a method to reduce sea turtle bycatch. Biology Letters 9:20130383.
43. WANG, J., FISLER, S., AND SWIMMER, Y. 2010. Developing visual deterrents to reduce sea turtle bycatch in gill net fisheries. Marine Ecology Progress Series 408:251-250.
44. WANG, J. AND SWIMMER, Y. 2007. Preliminary field experiments in Baja California, Mexico with lightsticks and shark shapes. In: Swimmer, Y. and Wang, J.H. (Eds.). 2006 Sea Turtle and Pelagic Fish Sensory Physiology Workshop, 12-13 September 2006. US Department of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memor. NMFS-PIFSC-12, pp. 18-19.
45. WATSON, J.W., EPPERLY, S.P., SHAH, A.K., AND FOSTER, D.G. 2005. Fishing methods to reduce sea turtle mortality associated with pelagic longlines. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:965-981.
46. WOODY, D.R. AND MATHIS, A. 1998. Acquired recognition of chemical stimuli from an unfamiliar predator: associative learning by adult newts, Notophthalmus viridescens. Copeia 1998:1027-1031.