Factoid/2004/12/09
From Beachapedia
< Beachapedia:Factoid | 2004 | 12
Longline Fishing Is Decimating Pacific Leatherback Turtles
- "Scientists predict that the giant Pacific leatherback sea turtle, which has survived unchanged for over 100 million years, could vanish in the next 5 to 30 years, if current threats from wasteful industrial longline fishing are not curtailed. The female nesting population of leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean has collapsed by 95 per cent in the past 20 years. The leatherback is the largest sea turtle, measuring nine feet from head to tail with the largest ever recorded tipping the scales at 2,000 lbs." - excerpt from the Sea Turtle Restoration Project press release from 12/7/2004. http://www.seaturtles.org
Factoid has been Emailed/Tweeted: Yes
| Coastal Factoids Archive | Coastal Factoids on Twitter | Coastal Factoids RSS Feed |