AEBR 345 Post-release survival for leatherback turtles caught in New Zealand surface longline fisheries

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The Critically Endangered and declining population status of the Western Pacific leatherback turtle population makes it important to quantify the post-release survival for leatherback turtles caught in surface longline fisheries in New Zealand.

This report summarises information on at-vessel and post-release survival for leatherbacks globally.

Two workshops were conducted during this project, to better understand the New Zealand surface longline fishery and to agree to a scoring scheme for estimating leatherback post-release mortality.

Post-release survival for leatherbacks caught in the New Zealand surface longline fishing fleet was estimated to be about 78%. This estimate was based upon 23 interactions.

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Wednesday, 30 October 2024

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AUTHOR: Finucci, B.; Dunn, M. R.;

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