Leatherback sea turtle bycatch in U.S. West Coast groundfish fisheries 2002-2019

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• Personal Author:
  Benson, Scott ; Fahy, Christina ; Jannot, Jason ; Eibner, Jason
• Corporate Authors:
  Southwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S.) ; United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region. ; Northwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SWFSC (Southwest Fisheries Science Center) ; WCR (West Coast Region) ; NWFSC (Northwest Fisheries Science Center)
• Description:
  The 2012 BiOp by NMFS determined that the components of the groundfish fishery were likely to adversely affect leatherback sea turtles. With respect to leatherback turtles interacting with US West Coast groundfish fisheries, the BiOp identified a set of nondiscretionary terms and conditions as necessary to implement the RPMs identified in the BiOp. These terms and conditions relate to two main areas: a) management planning and take reporting; and b) take monitoring. The BiOp identified the take limit of leatherback turtles to be 0.38 turtles/year over a 5-year average not exceeding 1 turtle/yr.
• Keywords:
  Leatherback Sea Turtle Southwest Fisheries Science Center
• Series:
  NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-SWFSC   731 ; NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-731  
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/px0e-gh24
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Technical Memorandum
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f981f38c46bd0dd26bf9543f8bc6a225b0011d274877433251f93194845d3404d5a05e8cc5391608cd63c3c20fb04066b91c57ce623b6e71e44da57235d50ca5
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/72463/noaa_72463_DS1.pdf
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