Careful release protocols for sea turtle release with minimal injury

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• Corporate Authors:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center)
• Description:
  "The following sea turtle handling protocols describe the tools and techniques for removing fishing gear from incidentally captured sea turtles. They should be followed whenever an interaction, such as a hooking and/or an entanglement, with a sea turtle occurs. The equipment and techniques described here are intended to reduce sea turtle injury and to promote post-release survival. The document, which updates Epperly et al. 2004, is designed primarily to give specific handling guidelines for removing gear from sea turtles captured in hook-and-line fisheries. Interactions with other gear types (e.g., trawls, gillnets, fixed gear) and species (e.g., fish, marine mammals) are mentioned briefly here, but this is not intended to be a comprehensive guide for interactions with these gear types or species"--Chapter 1, paragraph 1.
• Content Notes:
  "December 2008."
  
  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-130).
  
  
• Keywords:
  Bycatches (Fisheries) Equipment And Supplies Methodology Mortality Prevention Sea Turtles Equipment And Supplies Sea Turtles
• Series:
  NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-SEFSC   580
• Document Type:
  Technical Memorandum
• Rights Information:
  Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a407d0e45eb49b6aeb09ea52bfe86badc313b92d7e2f3d06c6f4953a4ae20d48
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/3773/noaa_3773_DS1.pdf
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