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Turtles
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Sea
Turtle Life History Form and Manual
(Updated 2/2009)
National
Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center. 2008. Sea
Turtle Research Techniques Manual.
NOAA Technical
Memorandum
NMFS-SEFSC-579, 92pp.
National
Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center. 2008. Careful
release protocols for sea turtle release with minimal injury. NOAA
Technical
Memorandum
NMFS-SEFSC-580, 130pp.
Training
Presentations
Observer
Training Videos
The
training videos below will be downloaded onto
your Local machine for viewing. They are MPEG's or .mpg files. The
video size in Megabytes (MB) is listed as well as the length of the
video in minutes. Depending on the speed of your connection and
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Removing
Fishing Gear from Longline Caught Sea Turtles (257MB)25:13 minutes long.
Video mpeg details the tools and techniques for safely removing hooks
and line from incidentally captured sea turtles. In addition
to the complete mpeg version, this video has been sectioned
into chapters for your convenience. To view these individual chapters,
you will need QuickTime. For a free download of QuickTime, visit the
QuickTime web page by clicking here.
Individual
chapters
Leatherbacks
Aboard video
(92.39MB)9:03 minutes long. Video mpeg
demonstrating a technique to bring a leatherback sea turtle aboard a
commercial fishing vessel to safely release it from fishing gear.
Related
Technical Memorandum
National
Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center. 2008. Careful
release protocols for sea turtle release with minimal injury. NOAA
Technical
Memorandum
NMFS-SEFSC-580, 130pp.
National
Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center. 2008. Sea
Turtle Research Techniques Manual.
NOAA Technical
Memorandum
NMFS-SEFSC-579, 92pp.
Epperly,
S., Stokes, L., and Dick, S. 2004. Careful release protocols
for sea turtle release with minimal injury. NOAA Technical Memorandum
NMFS-SEFSC-524, 42p.
Epperly,
S., Stokes, L., and Dick, S. 2004. Procedimientos casi
inocuos para la suelta de tortugas marinas. Memorando Technico de NOAA
NMFS-SEFSC-524, 48p.
Epperly,
S., Stokes, L., and Dick, S. 2004. Phuong thuc tha rua bien
mot cach than trong de it gay thruong tich nhat, van thu ky thuat NOAA
NMFS-SEFSC-524, 42 trang.
Handling and Release Quick
Reference Guides
Sea
Turtle Handling/Release Guidelines: Quick Reference for Atlantic
Longline Gear (English version)
Pautas
Para La Manipulacion y Suelta de Tortugas Marinas: Hoja de
Consulta para Aparejos de Palangre del Atlantico (Spanish version)
Sea
Turtle Handling/Release Guidelines: Quick Reference for Atlantic
Longline Gear (Vietnamese version)
Highly
Migratory Species Workshops
Office
of Sustainable Fisheries- Highly Migratory Species- Workshops
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