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| Chassot, Emmanuel; Sabarros, Philippe; Maufroy, A; Ruiz, J; Ramos, Ml; Barreau, E; Barde, Julien. |
| Observations of turtles in the open-ocean are essential to complement the information collected at nesting sites and rookeries, especially during the ‘lost years’ of their surface-pelagic juvenile phase. We used a large dataset of observations at sea collected onboard Seychelles, Spanish and French purse seiners over the period 2003-2019 to describe the occurrence of five species of turtles in the Western Indian Ocean: green ( Chelonia mydas ), loggerhead ( Caretta caretta ), leatherback ( Dermochelys coriacea ), Olive ridley ( Lepidochelys olivacea ) and hawksbill ( Eretmochelys imbricata ). A total of 895 turtles were recorded by human observers, 487 turtles after having been caught in the purse seine and hauled onboard the vessels and 408 turtles... |
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| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00599/71131/69446.pdf |
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