Fishery gear interactions from stranded bottlenose dolphins, Florida manatees and sea turtles in Florida, U.S.A.

Autor: Adimey NM; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 7915 Baymeadows Way, Suite 200, Jacksonville, FL 32256, USA. Electronic address: nicole_adimey@fws.gov., Hudak CA; Right Whale Research Program, Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA 02657, USA. Electronic address: chudak@coastalstudies.org., Powell JR; NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Regional Office, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA. Electronic address: Jessica.Powell@noaa.gov., Bassos-Hull K; Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, Chicago Zoological Society, c/o Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota, FL 34236, USA. Electronic address: kbhull@mote.org., Foley A; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Jacksonville Field Laboratory, Jacksonville, FL 32218, USA. Electronic address: Allen.Foley@myfwc.com., Farmer NA; NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Regional Office, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA. Electronic address: nick.farmer@noaa.gov., White L; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 7915 Baymeadows Way, Suite 200, Jacksonville, FL 32256, USA., Minch K; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network Indian River Field Lab, 1220 Prospect Ave, Suite 285, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA. Electronic address: Karrie.Minch@myfwc.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Marine pollution bulletin [Mar Pollut Bull] 2014 Apr 15; Vol. 81 (1), pp. 103-15. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Mar 06.
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.02.008
Abstrakt: Documenting the extent of fishery gear interactions is critical to wildlife conservation efforts, especially for reducing entanglements and ingestion. This study summarizes fishery gear interactions involving common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus truncatus), Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) and sea turtles: loggerhead (Caretta caretta), green turtle (Chelonia mydas), leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), and olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) stranding in Florida waters during 1997-2009. Fishery gear interactions for all species combined were 75.3% hook and line, 18.2% trap pot gear, 4.8% fishing nets, and 1.7% in multiple gears. Total reported fishery gear cases increased over time for dolphins (p<0.05), manatees (p<0.01), loggerheads (p<0.05) and green sea turtles (p<0.05). The proportion of net interaction strandings relative to total strandings for loggerhead sea turtles increased (p<0.05). Additionally, life stage and sex patterns were examined, fishery gear interaction hotspots were identified and generalized linear regression modeling was conducted.
(Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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